Skandapurana 6.2.68.43.3

6.2.68.43.3

prāpnuvaṃti piśācatvaṃ tathā ye vedaniṃdakāḥ .. 28 ..
niṃdaṃti ye purāṇāni dharmaśāstrāṇi sarvadā ..
te bhavaṃti piśācāśca ye sadā piśunā narāḥ .. 29 ..
iti te kathitaṃ sarvaṃ vedaprāmāṇyato'dhunā ..
idānīṃ kathayiṣyāmi yastvaṃ jātosi tacchṛṇu .. .. 5.2.68.30 ..
somako nāma śūdrastvaṃ paramarmaprakāśakaḥ ..
viśvāsaghātako jāto devabrāhmaṇadūṣakaḥ .. 31 ..
nāstiko bhinnamaryādo janmanyatrāpi saptame ..
sakulaṃ pātayitvātra narake dāruṇe bhṛśam .. 32 ..
piśācayoniṃ saṃprāptaḥ punaḥ prāpsyasi rauravam ..
mahārauravasaṃjñaṃ tu krakacaṃ kālasūtrakam..
yaṃtrapīḍanakaṃ raudraṃ mathanaṃ kumbhavālukam .. 33 ..
ityevaṃ vadatastasya brāhmaṇasya yaśasvini ..
sasmāra prāktanaṃ janma satsaṃgātkutsitaṃ svakam .. .. 34 ..
duḥkhābhibhūto niśceṣṭo dhigdhigityasakṛdbruvan ..
patito bhūtale devi idaṃ vākyamathābravīt .. 35 ..
aho kenāpi puṇyena bhavatā saha darśanam ..
jātaṃ mamālpapuṇyasya dīnasya kṛpaṇasya ca .. 36 ..
nāsti dharmasamaṃ mitraṃ nāsti dharmasamā gatiḥ ..
nāsti dharmasamṃ trāṇaṃ sa ca nāsti mama prabho .. 37 ..
magno'haṃ duḥkhajaladhau magno'haṃ pāpakardame ..
bhrāṃto'hamaṃdhatamasi tatastvāṃ śaraṇaṃ gataḥ .. 38 ..
namaste'stu mahābhāga kiṃ karomi praśādhi mām ..
tattapobalanirdiṣṭamidaṃ prāptaṃ mayā'dhunā .. 39 ..
evaṃ nigadatastasya piśācasya varānane ..
kathayāmāsa māhātmyaṃ sa vipraḥ śākaṭāyanaḥ .. 5.2.68.40 ..
pṛthivyāṃ yāni tīrthāni āsamudragatāni vai ..
kṣetrāṇi yāni saṃtīha teṣāṃ kṣetraṃ supuṇyadam ..41..
mahākālavanaṃ kṣetraṃ pralaye'pyakṣayaṃ gatam ..

"Those who revile the Vedas also attain the state of a piśāca. / Those men who always revile the Purāṇas and the Dharmaśāstras, / and who are ever slanderous, become piśācas. / Thus all this has now been told to you on the authority of the Vedas. / Now I will tell you who you were born as; listen to that: / You were a śūdra named Somaka, an exposer of others' secrets, / a betrayer of trust, a defamer of gods and brahmins, / an atheist who broke established norms, even in this seventh birth. / Having caused your family to fall exceedingly into terrible hell, / you have obtained the womb of a piśāca, and you will again go to Raurava, / to the hells named Mahāraurava, Krakaca, Kālasūtra, / the dreadful Yantrapīḍanaka, Mathana, and Kumbhavāluka." / As that brahmin was speaking thus, O illustrious one, / he remembered his own vile previous birth through association with the virtuous. / Overcome with grief, motionless, crying out repeatedly, "Fie! Fie!", / he fell to the ground, O goddess, and then spoke these words: / "Ah, by some merit I have obtained this sight of you— / I who have little merit, who am miserable and wretched! / There is no friend equal to dharma, there is no refuge equal to dharma, / there is no protection equal to dharma, and that dharma I do not possess, O lord! / I am drowned in the ocean of sorrow, I am sunk in the mire of sin; / I have wandered in blinding darkness; therefore I have taken refuge in you! / Reverence to you, O noble one! What should I do? Instruct me! / That which was ordained by the power of austerities has now been attained by me." / As that piśāca was speaking thus, O fair-faced lady, / that learned brahmin Śākaṭāyana related the māhātmya: / "Whatever sacred fords there are on earth extending to the ocean, / and whatever sacred fields exist here, superior in granting great merit to them / is the sacred field Mahākālavana, which remains indestructible even at the cosmic dissolution.