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# Skandapurana 7.4.52\_257

Skandapurāṇa 7.4.52\_257

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.4.52\_257](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.4.52_257)

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37.. saṃjñake - kha. . 38... dvayaṃ tu saṃyātya - kha, dvayaṃ tu tattīrṇā - gha . 39 puraṃ ca - kha. . 40 utthāya - gha. . 41 patitāḥ - gha. . 42... ṇāmupasmṛtaḥ - gha . 43 idaṃ - kha. . 44.. .palabhyaṃ - gha . 45 sāṃprataṃ - gha., śālmalim - kha .  
1 ataḥ parastṛtīyastu - ka., tṛtīyantu - kha. . 2 narakaḥ kālasūtrakaḥ - ka . 3 susaṃvṛtaḥ - ka. . 4 tadahaṃ - ka. . 5 śokadrohaṃ - ka. kha., śokadrohakarā - gha. . 6 pātyante - gha. . 7 śriya - gha. . 8 vājivikretā - kha, cāśvaṃ - gha. . 9 vikretārastathā - gha. . 10 dattvā caiva mahaddravyaṃ - gha. . 11 śikṣā nihnavet - kha. . 12 yo guruṃ nindate cāpi - ka., śāstraṃ gṛhya guruṃ nindet - kha. .  
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śvaśuraṃ bhrātaraṃ jyeṣṭhaṃ13 tathā cānyān garīyasaḥ .  
ākrośayati14 yastānvai tathā cāpyavamanyate . .6 . .  
āśramāṇāṃ tathā bhettā rahasyānāṃ ca sarvaśaḥ .  
adattaṃ yaḥ samādadyāt sa gacched dvija tatra vai15 . .7. .  
te tatra patitā ghore narake pāpacetasaḥ .  
tisraḥ koṭīstu saṃpūrṇā varṣāṇāntu narādhamāḥ .  
yātyante mṛtyuvacanāt16 krandamānā vicetasaḥ ..8..

> \[…\] / a father-in-law, an elder brother, and other venerable elders, / reviling them indeed and holding them in contempt, / a violator of the hermitage orders and of all secrets, / and one who takes what is not given—he indeed goes there, O twice-born. / Those sinful-minded, vile among men, having fallen into that dreadful hell, / are tormented for a full three crores of years by the order of Death, / weeping aloud and bereft of their senses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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