Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 22
त्यजध्वं संचयान्सर्वाञ्जातीनां समुपद्रवान् । न हि संचयवान्कश्चिद्दृश्यते निरुपद्रवः
tyajadhvaṃ saṃcayānsarvāñjātīnāṃ samupadravān | na hi saṃcayavānkaściddṛśyate nirupadravaḥ
اتركوا كلَّ اكتنازٍ، فإنه يصير سببَ أذى وابتلاءٍ للناس على اختلاف طبقاتهم. حقًّا، لا يُرى المُكتنِزُ قطّ خاليًا من المتاعب.
Unspecified in this snippet (contextually within a didactic dialogue in Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A teacher-sage gestures toward a heap of goods turning into thorns and serpents (symbolic troubles), while pilgrims set down bundles and walk freely toward a seaside shrine.
FAQs
Hoarding breeds anxiety and harm; dharma favors restraint, simplicity, and non-attachment.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra (the sacred Prabhāsa region, associated with Soma and Śaiva–Vaiṣṇava sacred geography).
No specific rite is prescribed here; it gives an ethical injunction toward non-accumulation.