Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 27
नाशं नीता वयं सर्वे सपुत्रपशुबाधवाः । तस्माच्छापं प्रदास्यामो वयं दुःखेन दुःखिताः
nāśaṃ nītā vayaṃ sarve saputrapaśubādhavāḥ | tasmācchāpaṃ pradāsyāmo vayaṃ duḥkhena duḥkhitāḥ
“நாங்கள் அனைவரும்—மக்கள், மாடுகள், உறவினர்கள் உடனே—அழிவுக்குக் கொண்டுசெல்லப்பட்டோம். ஆகவே துயரால் துயருற்ற நாம் சாபம் உரைப்போம்.”
Viprāḥ (Brāhmaṇas)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Skanda
Scene: Brāhmaṇas lament their destroyed households; one holds a fallen child, another gestures toward dead cattle; their faces harden as they declare intent to curse.
FAQs
Unaddressed suffering can turn into condemnation; dharma demands that harm done to the innocent be remedied.
The setting is the tīrtha-māhātmya of Nāgarakhaṇḍa (Adhyāya 71), associated with the sacred mountain Raktaśṛṅga.
None explicitly; the verse emphasizes the moral force of a brāhmaṇa’s curse within purāṇic narrative.