Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 88
मृतस्यैवं गतिर्नास्ति नरके स विपच्यते । मृतं कांतं समादाय भार्याग्नौ प्रविशेद्यदि
mṛtasyaivaṃ gatirnāsti narake sa vipacyate | mṛtaṃ kāṃtaṃ samādāya bhāryāgnau praviśedyadi
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Unspecified (narrative voice within Vastrāpathakṣetra Māhātmya; likely a Purāṇic narrator addressing a king/listener)
Tirtha: Vastrāpatha-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: King within the story-context
Scene: A didactic tableau: on one side, a sinner’s soul bound and led toward a fiery hell; on the other, a devoted wife approaches a funeral pyre holding her deceased husband, suggesting a divergent fate.
FAQs
It stresses that severe sin leads to hellish suffering, while extreme acts framed as dharma are presented as altering karmic destiny.
The broader setting is the Vastrāpatha-kṣetra within the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa’s sacred geography.
Entry into the funeral fire by the wife (presented here as a dharma-framed act affecting the husband’s post-mortem fate).