Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 33
कुत्सितोनाम विख्यातो द्विजायं चाष्टमोऽधमः । श्लेष्ममूत्राभिसंपूर्णैस्तथा गन्धैश्च कुत्सितैः
kutsitonāma vikhyāto dvijāyaṃ cāṣṭamo'dhamaḥ | śleṣmamūtrābhisaṃpūrṇaistathā gandhaiśca kutsitaiḥ
Hỡi bậc tối thắng trong hàng Bà-la-môn, địa ngục thứ tám, ô uế, được gọi là Kutsita. Nơi ấy đầy đờm dãi và nước tiểu, bốc lên mùi hôi nhục nhã, đê tiện.
Skanda (deduced from Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya narrative style)
Tirtha: Kutsita (Naraka)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvija (addressed as ‘dvijasattama’/‘best of brāhmaṇas’)
Scene: A cavernous hell labeled ‘Kutsita’: pools and vapors of bodily filth, oppressive stench rendered visually as greenish haze; sinners wade and recoil while Yama’s agents drive them onward.
FAQs
Impure, adharmic conduct ripens into correspondingly impure suffering; the Purāṇa warns that moral degradation yields degrading results.
This verse is part of a Tīrthamāhātmya chapter but here it specifically describes a naraka; the tīrtha is not named in this shloka.
No direct ritual is prescribed in this verse; it functions as a karmic warning within the larger māhātmya context.
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