Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 29
सदाचरणगोप्येष सुखयानचरः कृती । अदरिद्रोपि मेधावी सोभूत्पापदरिद्रधीः
sadācaraṇagopyeṣa sukhayānacaraḥ kṛtī | adaridropi medhāvī sobhūtpāpadaridradhīḥ
اس کی بدکرداری نیک چلنی کی اوٹ میں چھپی رہتی تھی؛ وہ آسودگی سے پھرتا، باکمال اور کارآمد تھا۔ مال میں فقیر نہ تھا اور ذہین بھی تھا، مگر گناہ کے سبب وہ دل و دماغ میں مفلس ہو گیا۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda speaking to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (general frame)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Muni/ṛṣi audience
Scene: A well-dressed man walks confidently through a city lane, but behind him a shadow-form (personified pāpa) clings; his face shows a faint crack of anxiety; a thin veil motif symbolizes ‘concealment’.
FAQs
Outer respectability cannot hide inner wrongdoing; sin impoverishes the mind even when wealth and intelligence remain.
The teaching belongs to the Kāśī Khaṇḍa’s moral framework; no particular tirtha is named in this verse.
None; it is a warning about concealed pāpa and the need for inner integrity.