Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 16
तत्पापं भविता कस्य कथयंत्विति मे लघु । तथैव गत्वा पप्रच्छ पितरौ तावथोचतुः
tatpāpaṃ bhavitā kasya kathayaṃtviti me laghu | tathaiva gatvā papraccha pitarau tāvathocatuḥ
اس نے کہا: “جلدی بتاؤ—وہ گناہ کس کے سر آئے گا؟” یہ کہہ کر وہ ویسے ہی گیا اور اپنے ماں باپ سے پوچھا؛ پھر دونوں نے جواب دیا۔
Narrator (within Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya frame)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A worried son approaches his seated parents in a hermitage-like setting near the sacred coast of Prabhāsa, hands folded, asking urgently about whose share the sin becomes.
FAQs
Karma is personal and must be faced honestly; one cannot assume others will automatically share the consequences of one’s wrongdoing.
The account remains within the Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya, where such dilemmas lead toward purification and dharmic correction.
None in this verse; it narrates the inquiry that precedes further instruction and transformation.