Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 21
आदेशं पठते यस्तु आदेशं च ददाति यः । द्वावेतौ पापकर्माणौ पातालतलवासिनौ
ādeśaṃ paṭhate yastu ādeśaṃ ca dadāti yaḥ | dvāvetau pāpakarmāṇau pātālatalavāsinau
然而，诵读“ādeśa”者与授予“ādeśa”者——二者皆为造罪之人，注定居于帕塔拉（地下界）。
Sūta (deduced)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: At the edge of a sacred coastal kṣetra, two figures—one reciting a proclamation and one commissioning it—are shown shadowed by the yawning descent to Pātāla, while a distant temple spire and sea-horizon witness the moral warning.
FAQs
Dharma rejects manipulative authorizations and transactional religious directives that corrupt sacred practice.
The warning is embedded in Prabhāsa-kṣetra’s Māhātmya, reinforcing ethical purity in a premier pilgrimage landscape.
A prohibition: do not issue or recite such ‘ādeśa’ directives; the verse frames it as a pāpa leading to Pātāla.