Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 2
सर्वेषां प्राणिनां लोके कृतं कर्म शुभाशुभम् । उपतिष्ठति नान्यत्र सत्यमेतत्सुरोत्तमाः
sarveṣāṃ prāṇināṃ loke kṛtaṃ karma śubhāśubham | upatiṣṭhati nānyatra satyametatsurottamāḥ
“Đối với mọi chúng sinh trong đời, nghiệp đã tạo—thiện hay ác—đều hiện đứng trước chính mình, không sai chạy về nơi nào khác. Đó là chân lý, hỡi các bậc thiên thần tối thượng.”
Māṇḍavya (continuing address to the gods)
Type: kshetra
Listener: surottamāḥ (addressed audience: foremost of gods)
Scene: A solemn, court-like setting where a divine authority proclaims the unerring law of karma; figures listen with awe as the moral order is stated like a cosmic decree.
FAQs
Karma is inescapable: each being inherits the direct consequence of their own good and bad actions, affirming the moral order upheld by dharma.
This verse is doctrinal (karma-principle) within the Tīrthamāhātmya narrative frame; no specific tīrtha is named here.
None explicitly; the verse establishes the ethical foundation that motivates pilgrimage, vows, and purificatory acts elsewhere in the māhātmya.