Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 3
सप्त जन्मानि देवेशि न तस्यान्वयसंभवः । चौरः कश्चिद्भवेत्क्रूरस्तत्र स्नानप्रभावतः
sapta janmāni deveśi na tasyānvayasaṃbhavaḥ | cauraḥ kaścidbhavetkrūrastatra snānaprabhāvataḥ
اے دیویِ دیویشوری، سات جنموں تک اس کی نسل کا سلسلہ قائم نہیں رہتا؛ وہ کوئی سنگ دل چور بن جاتا ہے—یہ وہاں کے اسنان کی طاقت سے وابستہ نتیجہ ہے۔
Īśvara (Śiva) (narrative explanation continues)
Tirtha: Kuṇḍalasaṃbhava-kūpa (contextual)
Type: kund
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A didactic tableau: shadowy scenes of repeated births marked by theft and cruelty, contrasted with the luminous possibility of purification at the sacred well; the narrative voice warns of long karmic chains.
FAQs
Actions shape future births and social outcomes; the Māhātmya frames moral causality alongside tīrtha-based purification.
The same Kuṇḍalasaṃbhava bathing-place context of Adhyāya 148 (implied by ‘tatra’).
No new rite is prescribed; the verse explains karmic/biographical consequences in the tīrtha narrative framework.