Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 35
तेषां शिरसि निक्षिप्तो भूरिभारो द्विजोत्तम । अतोऽमी ब्राह्मणश्रेष्ठ पूत्का रयन्ति भैरवम्
teṣāṃ śirasi nikṣipto bhūribhāro dvijottama | ato'mī brāhmaṇaśreṣṭha pūtkā rayanti bhairavam
اے افضلِ دِوِج! ان کے سروں پر بھاری بوجھ رکھ دیا جاتا ہے؛ اسی لیے، اے برہمنِ برتر، وہ بھیرو کی سی ہولناک کرب میں چیخ اٹھتے ہیں۔
Yama
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: a brāhmaṇa (dvijottama / brāhmaṇa-śreṣṭha)
Scene: Sinners stagger under an enormous load placed on their heads; their mouths open in anguished cries invoking/echoing ‘Bhairava’—a sonic emblem of terror and divine policing.
FAQs
Karmic weight becomes literalized as unbearable burden; adharma inevitably yields suffering proportionate to wrongdoing.
The verse remains within the Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya narrative framework.
None; it continues the depiction of karmic punishment rather than prescribing a rite.