Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 10
तेषां विनाशजं दुःखं मा नुषे त्वमवाप्स्यसि । नागत्वे वर्तमानायाः शापं तेऽमुं ददाम्यहम्
teṣāṃ vināśajaṃ duḥkhaṃ mā nuṣe tvamavāpsyasi | nāgatve vartamānāyāḥ śāpaṃ te'muṃ dadāmyaham
மனிதப் பிறவியில் அவர்களின் அழிவால் உண்டாகும் துயரத்தை நீ அனுபவிப்பாய். தற்போது நாகியாக இருக்கும் உனக்கு நான் இந்தச் சாபத்தை இடுகிறேன்.
Unnamed brahmin woman/kinswoman (contextual; completing the curse)
Scene: The woman completes the curse with a steady, ritual-like posture; the nāgī is shown in present serpent-form with a shadow of future human grief behind her—burning pyres or a stormy horizon symbolizing loss.
FAQs
Karma can mature as experiential suffering: one who causes ruin may be compelled to taste ruin through one’s own attachments.
The verse is embedded in a tīrtha-māhātmya chapter but does not itself identify the tīrtha; it advances the moral plot leading to the chapter’s sacred-geography teaching.
None here.
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