Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 32
यूयं सर्वे रुद्रवरा वेदबाह्याश्च वै भृशम् । शप्ताहि वेदमार्गैश्च तथा त्यक्ता महर्षिभिः
yūyaṃ sarve rudravarā vedabāhyāśca vai bhṛśam | śaptāhi vedamārgaiśca tathā tyaktā maharṣibhiḥ
“تم سب—رودر کے بھکت—بالکل ویدک دائرے سے باہر ہو جاؤ گے۔ تم پر شاپت ہے کہ وید کے مارگ سے کاٹ دیے جاؤ اور مہارشی تمہیں ترک کر دیں۔”
Dakṣa
Tirtha: Kedāra (Kedāranātha)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Rudra-bhaktas/Śiva’s followers (and the assembly)
Scene: Dakṣa, in wrath, pronounces a sweeping curse upon Rudra’s devotees: to be outside the Vedic fold and abandoned by great sages; the cursed group stands firm yet shadowed by impending hardship.
FAQs
Puranas depict how rigid ritualism can demonize devotion; the text critiques the misuse of ‘Vedic authority’ as a weapon of exclusion.
None directly; it remains within Kedārakhaṇḍa’s larger sacred narrative centered on Śiva’s supremacy and pilgrimage ethos.
No prescription; the verse is a social-religious curse framed in terms of separation from Vedic practice.