Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 80
अत्युपयुक्ताः सद्भिर्गतागतैरहरहः सुनिर्विण्णाः । कृपणजनसंनिकाशं संप्राप्यार्थाः स्वपंतीह
atyupayuktāḥ sadbhirgatāgatairaharahaḥ sunirviṇṇāḥ | kṛpaṇajanasaṃnikāśaṃ saṃprāpyārthāḥ svapaṃtīha
إنّ المال إذا أكثر الصالحون استعماله في الذهاب والإياب، في الخدمة والبذل، أضناه التعب يومًا بعد يوم. أمّا إذا بلغ جوار البخيل، فإنّ الثروة هنا كأنها تنام—خامدة لا ثمرة لها.
Narrative voice within Tīrthamāhātmya (contextual speaker not explicit in the excerpt)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Animated coins and grain-sacks moving joyfully between households of the generous, then turning dull and ‘sleeping’ as they enter the dark storehouse of a miser.
FAQs
Resources become meaningful when they circulate in dharmic use; hoarding makes wealth inert and spiritually unproductive.
No particular tīrtha is named in this verse; it is a general moral teaching within a tīrtha-mahātmya chapter.
An implied prescription toward dāna and service—keeping wealth active in righteous acts rather than letting it stagnate.