Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 65
अन्यायेन हृता भूमिरन्यायेन च हारिता । हर्ता हारयिता चैव विष्ठायां जायते कृमिः
anyāyena hṛtā bhūmiranyāyena ca hāritā | hartā hārayitā caiva viṣṭhāyāṃ jāyate kṛmiḥ
جو زمین ناحق چھینی جائے یا ناحق چھنوائی جائے، اس میں چھیننے والا اور چھنوَانے والا دونوں گندگی میں کیڑے بن کر پیدا ہوتے ہیں۔
Unspecified (Revākhaṇḍa narrative voice; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa in Purāṇic framing)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) tīrtha sphere (contextual)
Type: river
Scene: Two figures—one seizing land, another ordering it—are both shown facing the same karmic downfall, emphasizing equal culpability for injustice.
FAQs
Adharma includes both direct wrongdoing and enabling it; both incur severe karmic results.
Revākhaṇḍa’s sacred milieu frames the teaching, but this verse focuses on moral law rather than a named tirtha.
None; it condemns unjust seizure of land and complicity in it.
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