Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 67
तापस्य ऊचुः । नास्माकं भूषणैः कार्यं भूषिता वल्कलैर्वयम् । तस्माद्गच्छ निजं हर्म्यमर्थिभ्यः संप्रदीयताम्
tāpasya ūcuḥ | nāsmākaṃ bhūṣaṇaiḥ kāryaṃ bhūṣitā valkalairvayam | tasmādgaccha nijaṃ harmyamarthibhyaḥ saṃpradīyatām
The ascetic women said: “We have no need of ornaments; we are adorned with bark-garments. Therefore, go back to your own mansion—let these be properly given to those who are in need.”
Tāpasyaḥ (ascetic women)
Type: kshetra
Scene: The four ascetic women gently refuse the ornaments, pointing toward the town/road where the needy dwell; their bark garments and antelope skins glow with symbolic purity.
FAQs
True renunciation values simplicity; wealth finds its dharmic fulfillment when redirected to those who genuinely need it.
No single tīrtha is named in this verse; it contributes to the moral atmosphere of a tīrtha-māhātmya episode.
Dāna is explicitly advised: give valuables to ‘arthin’—those who ask or are needy—rather than to renunciants who do not require them.