Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 85
ब्रह्मघ्ने च सुरापे च स्तेये गुर्वङ्गनागमे । निष्कृतिर्विहिता शास्त्रे कृतघ्ने नास्ति निष्कृतिः
brahmaghne ca surāpe ca steye gurvaṅganāgame | niṣkṛtirvihitā śāstre kṛtaghne nāsti niṣkṛtiḥ
برہمن کے قاتل، شراب پینے والے، چور اور گرو کی بیوی کی حرمت توڑنے والے کے لیے شاستر میں پرائےشچت مقرر ہے؛ مگر کِرتَگھن، یعنی ناشکرا غدار کے لیے کوئی کفّارہ نہیں۔
Munis (addressing Yamadūtas)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) context (sectional)
Type: river
Scene: A solemn dharma-assembly: a sage or narrator enumerates grave sins; a dark figure labeled ‘kṛtaghna’ stands apart, symbolically unpurified even as other sinners approach a river for expiation.
FAQs
Ingratitude—harming one who trusted or helped you—is portrayed as a uniquely destructive sin, beyond ordinary expiations.
None is named in this verse; it is a dharma/prāyaścitta teaching within the Revā Khaṇḍa context.
It states that scriptures prescribe prāyaścitta for major sins like brahmahatyā, surāpāna, theft, and violating the guru’s wife, but denies prāyaścitta for kṛtaghna.