Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 44
न वेदबलमाश्रित्य प्रतिग्रहरुचिर्भवेत् । अज्ञानाद्वा प्रमादाद्वा दहते कर्म नेतरत्
na vedabalamāśritya pratigraharucirbhavet | ajñānādvā pramādādvā dahate karma netarat
বৈদিক শৃঙ্খলার বল আশ্রয় না করে দানগ্রহণে রুচি করা উচিত নয়; অজ্ঞতা বা প্রমাদে এমন আচরণই কর্মফল দগ্ধ করে, অন্য কিছু নয়।
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.