Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 51
अथवा यतिधर्माणां यदि मोक्षो भवेन्नृणाम् । दरिद्राणां च सर्वेषां तन्मुक्तिः प्रथमा भवेत्
athavā yatidharmāṇāṃ yadi mokṣo bhavennṛṇām | daridrāṇāṃ ca sarveṣāṃ tanmuktiḥ prathamā bhavet
Et encore : si la délivrance des hommes naissait seulement de la discipline du yati, alors, parmi tous, les pauvres obtiendraient d’abord cette libération.
Unspecified (continuation of Śuka’s argumentative sequence by context)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Śuka’s teaching juxtaposed with an image of a poor person and a renunciant: the point that external lack or garb does not equal inner freedom.
FAQs
Mokṣa is not guaranteed by outward renunciant conditions; it depends on true knowledge and inner transformation.
No specific site is mentioned; this is a doctrinal argument within the Tīrthamāhātmya narrative frame.
None explicitly; it questions simplistic identification of mokṣa with external renunciant markers.