Skandapurana 7.16.24_106

7.16.24_106

tarava ūcuḥ
kathaṃ vayaṃ putrakṛtāstān31 pitṝnnirayopagān .
' ' ' - ' - - - - - - - - - . . 3 2. .
somavikrayiṇo ye ca ye ca viśvastaghātinaḥ .
ye ca prāṇivadhe yuktāḥ pṛṣṭhamāṃsāśinaśca ye . .3 3 . .
rājñāmākrośakā ye ca ye ca piṇḍāpahārakāḥ .
ete32 svakarmabhirghorairveṣṭitā lomaharṣaṇaiḥ ..34..

The trees said:
'How do we, adopted as sons, [rescue] those ancestors who have gone to hell
[…]?
Those who sell soma, and those who slay the trusting,
and those engaged in killing living beings, and those who eat flesh from the back,
and those who abuse kings, and those who steal funeral cakes—
these, surrounded by their terrible, hair-raising actions,