Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 87
त्यज मूलमनर्थस्य लोभमेनं द्विजोत्तम । इत्युक्त्वा स्वर्ययौ राजा स्वर्गकन्यासमावृतः
tyaja mūlamanarthasya lobhamenaṃ dvijottama | ityuktvā svaryayau rājā svargakanyāsamāvṛtaḥ
«اترك هذا الطمع، يا أفضلَ المولودين مرّتَين؛ فهو أصلُ الشقاء.» ثم قال ذلك، فمضى الملك إلى السماء، تحفّه العذارى السماويات.
King Śatabāhu (quoted within Mārkaṇḍeya’s narration)
Tirtha: Hanūmanteśvara
Type: kshetra
Listener: The brāhmaṇa (addressed as 'dvijottama')
Scene: Śatabāhu, calm and resolute, instructs the brāhmaṇa to abandon greed; immediately after, the king rises skyward in a radiant vimāna-like ascent, surrounded by apsarases, while the shrine and riverbank glow below.
FAQs
Greed (lobha) is portrayed as the root of downfall; renouncing it safeguards both worldly and spiritual welfare.
Indirectly, the Revā tīrtha setting is upheld as a place where moral instruction and purification narratives unfold.
No ritual here; it is an ethical injunction (lobha-tyāga) embedded in the tīrtha narrative.