Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 27
तस्मात्त्वमपि चास्माकं बाह्य एव भविष्यसि । सुशीलोऽपि हि दुःशीलो नाम्ना संकीर्त्यसे बुधैः
tasmāttvamapi cāsmākaṃ bāhya eva bhaviṣyasi | suśīlo'pi hi duḥśīlo nāmnā saṃkīrtyase budhaiḥ
“لہٰذا تم بھی ہماری برادری سے باہر کر دیے جاؤ گے۔ اگرچہ تمہارا نام سُشیلا ہے، مگر دانا لوگ تمہیں ‘دُشِیلا’ کے نام سے ہی پکاریں گے۔”
Brāhmaṇas (Dvijas)
Type: kshetra
Scene: The brāhmaṇas pronounce excommunication; Suśīla stands isolated at the edge of the assembly, his name symbolically inverted—‘Suśīla’ to ‘Duḥśīla’—as onlookers avert their gaze.
FAQs
Moral identity is upheld as conduct-based: a good name without good conduct is reversed by the judgment of the wise.
No specific site is named in this verse; it advances the moral narrative within the tīrtha chapter.
None; it is a pronouncement of social-religious exclusion and reputational reversal.