Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 44
न वेदबलमाश्रित्य प्रतिग्रहरुचिर्भवेत् । अज्ञानाद्वा प्रमादाद्वा दहते कर्म नेतरत्
na vedabalamāśritya pratigraharucirbhavet | ajñānādvā pramādādvā dahate karma netarat
من غير الاتّكاء على قوّة الانضباط الفيديّ لا ينبغي أن تنشأ رغبةٌ في قبول العطايا؛ سواء كان ذلك عن جهلٍ أو عن غفلة، فإن هذا السلوك يحرق الكارما—ولا شيء غيره يفعل مثل ذلك.
Skanda (as narrator of Prabhāsa-māhātmya)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A teacherly scene: a disciplined Vedic practitioner refuses gifts with calm restraint, while a negligent recipient is shown with scorched aura symbolizing ‘karma burning’; the tīrtha setting frames the moral.
FAQs
Gift-taking requires strict dharmic grounding; careless acceptance corrodes spiritual standing.
This is a dharma-instruction embedded in the Prabhāsa Kṣetra tīrtha narrative.
A restraint: do not cultivate pratigraha (receiving gifts) without Vedic discipline and careful eligibility.