Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 70
पापस्योदयकाले च विपरीता हि सा भवेत् । सकृत्पालयते यस्तु धर्मेणैतज्जगत्त्रयम्
pāpasyodayakāle ca viparītā hi sā bhavet | sakṛtpālayate yastu dharmeṇaitajjagattrayam
مگر جب گناہ کا اُدَے ہوتا ہے تو وہی سمجھ بوجھ الٹی ہو جاتی ہے۔ پھر بھی جو دھرم کے ساتھ ایک بار بھی اس تینوں جہان کو سنبھالتا ہے، (اس کی عظمت ظاہر ہوتی ہے)۔
Unspecified in snippet (contextual speaker within Dharmāraṇya narrative)
Tirtha: Dharmāraṇya (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Contrast tableau: a shadow of sin rising and twisting a person’s mind; opposite, a dharmic figure stands firm, symbolically supporting the three worlds (earth, mid-air, heaven) like a cosmic pillar.
FAQs
Pāpa distorts discernment, while dharma sustains cosmic order; even a single act of true dharmic protection is spiritually weighty.
This verse is ethical-cosmic in emphasis and does not name a specific tīrtha.
No ritual is prescribed; it extols dharma as the sustaining principle and right action as its expression.