Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 22
सहस्रकृत्वस्त्वेतेषामन्ने यद्भक्षिते भवेत् । तदेकवारं भुक्तेन कन्याविक्रयिणो भवेत्
sahasrakṛtvastveteṣāmanne yadbhakṣite bhavet | tadekavāraṃ bhuktena kanyāvikrayiṇo bhavet
แม้ผู้ใดจะกินอาหารเหล่านี้ถึงพันครั้ง ผลกรรมที่เกิดขึ้นก็เท่ากับการกินเพียงครั้งเดียวซึ่งอาหารของผู้ที่ขายบุตรสาวของตนในการสมรส.
Narrative voice in Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya (contextual Purāṇic instruction; exact speaker not explicit in the snippet)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A scale-of-karma allegory: on one side, a thousand small bowls of 'lesser prohibited foods'; on the other, a single bowl labeled 'kanyā-vikraya'; the single bowl outweighs the many, while a dharma-figure (sage) points to the imbalance before the Prabhāsa shrine.
FAQs
Certain social violations (like commodifying marriage) are portrayed as extremely grievous, outweighing other dietary faults.
Prabhāsakṣetra, where dharma is taught in sharp moral gradations as part of the holy place’s instruction.
No ritual is prescribed; it is a comparative statement about karmic consequence.