Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 21
यश्च वो विदितं कुर्यादेवं कश्चित्क्वचिन्नरः । स जीवञ्छूलमारोहेत्स्वयं कृत्वा सबांधवः
yaśca vo viditaṃ kuryādevaṃ kaścitkvacinnaraḥ | sa jīvañchūlamārohetsvayaṃ kṛtvā sabāṃdhavaḥ
اور جو کوئی آدمی کہیں بھی یہ بات تم پر ظاہر کرے، وہ اپنے ہی کیے کے سبب، اپنے رشتہ داروں سمیت، زندہ ہی سولی پر چڑھے گا۔
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator in Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya; traditionally Sūta)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A stern proclamation of punishment: anyone who reveals the secret will be impaled alive along with his kin—an austere, fear-charged civic decree scene.
FAQs
Speech (vāk) is treated as morally weighty in Purāṇic dharma; violating a grave injunction brings severe, self-incurred consequence extending to one’s social circle.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra is the narrative setting; the māhātmya frames events as part of the sacred geography surrounding Prabhāsa on the seacoast.
No ritual is prescribed; the verse states a deterrent punishment tied to a strict injunction.