Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 21
हा मातस्तात पुत्रेति प्रकुर्वंति सुदारुणम् । परपाकरताः क्षुद्राः परद्रव्या पहारकाः
hā mātastāta putreti prakurvaṃti sudāruṇam | parapākaratāḥ kṣudrāḥ paradravyā pahārakāḥ
“ہائے ماں! ہائے باپ! ہائے بیٹا!” پکار پکار کر وہ نہایت سخت مصیبت میں نوحہ کرتے ہیں—وہ کمینہ دل لوگ جو دوسروں کو دکھ دینے میں لذت پاتے ہیں اور دوسروں کا مال چراتے ہیں۔
Yama (Dharmarāja)
Scene: A dark, infernal corridor where sinners clutch their heads and cry out ‘mātā, tāta, putra’ while shadowy figures representing theft and cruelty loom; the mood is lamentation and moral warning rather than spectacle.
FAQs
Theft and malicious harm lead to intense suffering; dharma demands non-injury and respect for others’ property.
No holy site is named in this verse; it continues the moral-cosmological teaching within the tīrtha-māhātmya chapter.
None explicitly; the implied prescription is ethical restraint (ahiṃsā, asteya) as dharmic conduct.