Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 48
तस्मादेवंविधा चेयं सदा स्थास्यति चाधम । किं पुनः कुरु यत्कृत्यं नाहं वक्ष्यामि किंचन
tasmādevaṃvidhā ceyaṃ sadā sthāsyati cādhama | kiṃ punaḥ kuru yatkṛtyaṃ nāhaṃ vakṣyāmi kiṃcana
“پس اے کمینے! وہ ہمیشہ اسی حالت میں رہے گی۔ اب اور کیا کرنا ہے؟ جو کرنا لازم ہے کر لو؛ میں مزید کچھ نہیں کہوں گا۔”
Hārīta (implied from immediate narrative context; confirmed explicitly in 51)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Kāmadeva
Scene: A stern moment in the hermitage: Hārīta delivers a final, cutting verdict; the addressed figure is shamed and the air feels heavy, foreshadowing petrification.
FAQs
Actions bring inevitable consequences; when dharma is violated, the result may become fixed and unavoidable.
The verse sits within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya flow, but this line itself does not name a specific tīrtha.
No ritual is prescribed in this verse; it is a decisive narrative statement concluding an admonition.