Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 11
मार्गमांसपरित्यागान्नरकं न च पश्यति । शौकरस्य पीरत्यागाद्ब्रह्मवासमवाप्नुयात्
mārgamāṃsaparityāgānnarakaṃ na ca paśyati | śaukarasya pīratyāgādbrahmavāsamavāpnuyāt
جنگلی جانوروں کے گوشت سے پرہیز کرنے والا انسان دوزخ نہیں دیکھتا۔ سور کے گوشت کا ترک کرنے سے وہ برہما لوک میں سکونت پاتا ہے۔
Skanda (deduced from Nāgara-khaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya instructional tone)
Scene: A pilgrim refuses hunting meat; a hunter sets down weapons; a boar is spared; the devotee offers water and flowers at a shrine, with a luminous path rising upward symbolizing Brahmaloka and a dark abyss fading away symbolizing naraka avoided.
FAQs
Restraint from हिंसा-linked foods is praised as purifying karma and elevating one toward higher worlds.
No particular tīrtha is named; the verse emphasizes the moral-spiritual fruit of abstinence within the broader māhātmya setting.
Avoidance of game meat and boar meat as a vowed restraint.