Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 61
शुनोमुख उवाच । वेदान्स पठतु न्यायाद्गृहस्थः स्यात्प्रियातिथिः । सत्यं वदतु चाजस्रं बिसस्तैन्यं करोति यः
śunomukha uvāca | vedānsa paṭhatu nyāyādgṛhasthaḥ syātpriyātithiḥ | satyaṃ vadatu cājasraṃ bisastainyaṃ karoti yaḥ
شُنومُکھ نے کہا: جو بساستَینْیَہ (کنول کی ڈنڈی کی چوری) کرتا ہے، وہ بھی قاعدے کے مطابق ویدوں کا پاٹھ کرنے والا گِرہستھ بنتا ہے، مہمانوں کے لیے محبوب میزبان ہوتا ہے اور ہمیشہ سچ بولتا رہتا ہے۔
Śunomukha
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣayaḥ (assembled sages)
Scene: A dog-faced ascetic-speaker (Śunomukha) addresses seated sages in a lotus-pond hermitage near the sea-coast of Prabhāsa; the speech carries an ironic moral twist about ‘lotus-stalk theft’ and virtues of a householder.
FAQs
As transmitted here, it unexpectedly lists virtues; this may indicate an ironic turn, a contrasting statement, or a manuscript variation within the sequence of sin-fruits.
The passage belongs to the Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya; this verse itself highlights gṛhastha virtues rather than naming a particular tīrtha.
Veda study ‘according to rule’ and sustained truth-speaking are mentioned as practices, though framed within the bisastainya refrain.