Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 23
पंक्तिभेदस्य कर्ता च गोसहस्रवधः स्मृतः । वृत्तिभागविभजनं तथा न्यायविचारणम् । श्रीरामदूतकस्याग्रे कर्त्तव्यमिति निश्चयः
paṃktibhedasya kartā ca gosahasravadhaḥ smṛtaḥ | vṛttibhāgavibhajanaṃ tathā nyāyavicāraṇam | śrīrāmadūtakasyāgre karttavyamiti niścayaḥ
جو پَنکتی بھید (ہم نشینی کی صف میں رخنہ) ڈالے، اسے ہزار گایوں کے قاتل کے برابر یاد کیا گیا ہے۔ روزی اور حصّوں کی تقسیم، اور اسی طرح انصاف کی جانچ—یہ سب شری رام کے دوت ہنومان جی کے حضور ہی کرنا طے ہے۔
Deductive: Sūta (narrating dharma rules) introducing Hanumān as witness/guardian of righteous judgment
Tirtha: Śrī Rāma-dūta (Hanumān) sannidhi
Type: temple
Scene: A village/city assembly meets before a Hanumān shrine: elders seated in a semicircle, offerings at Hanumān’s feet; a scribe records shares; disputants stand with folded hands; Hanumān’s image presides as witness.
FAQs
Social harmony and truthful justice are sacred; violating communal order is a grave sin, while righteous decisions should be made under divine witness (Hanumān).
No specific location is named; the verse sacralizes the act of justice itself by placing it before Hanumān (Śrī Rāma’s dūta).
A devotional-legal prescription: conduct distribution of shares and judicial deliberations in the presence of Hanumān (as a sanctifying witness).