Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 42
मांसाद उवाच । मातृवत्परदारान्यः परद्रव्याणि लोष्टवत् । यः पश्यत्यात्मवज्जंतून्न प्रेतो जायते नरः
māṃsāda uvāca | mātṛvatparadārānyaḥ paradravyāṇi loṣṭavat | yaḥ paśyatyātmavajjaṃtūnna preto jāyate naraḥ
ماآںسادا نے کہا: “جو دوسرے کی بیوی کو ماں کی مانند سمجھے، دوسرے کے مال کو مٹی کے ڈھیلے کی طرح جانے، اور سب جانداروں کو اپنے ہی نفس کی طرح دیکھے—وہ انسان پریت نہیں بنتا۔”
Māṃsāda
Listener: The King
Scene: Symbolic triptych: a man respectfully averting gaze from another’s wife (seen as mother), rejecting a pile of coins as mere earth, and embracing/seeing all beings with equal compassion (animals, humans, ascetics).
FAQs
Purity in relationships, non-covetousness, and universal empathy (ātma-vat sarva-bhūteṣu) are presented as protections against a degraded after-death state.
No specific tirtha is named; the verse supplies moral qualifications aligned with tīrtha-oriented dharma.
No ritual is specified; it prescribes inner and social discipline: chastity, non-stealing, and compassion.