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# Skandapurana 5.225.48

Skandapurāṇa 5.225.48

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.225.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.225.48)

lohadaṃṣṭrāstato raudrāḥ sārameyā vyavasthitāḥ ..  
bhakṣayaṃti ca te pāpānpṛṣṭhamāṃsā śino narān ..  
traipakṣike kṛte śrāddhe tebhyo muktimavāpnuyuḥ .. 48 ..

> Next are stationed fierce hounds with iron fangs; / they devour the sinners who ate the flesh of \[another's\] back (slanderers). / When the forty-fifth-day śrāddha is performed, they obtain liberation from them.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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