Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 113
यत्पापं साक्ष्यकर्तृणां धान्यसंग्रहकारिणाम् । तन्मे स्याद्यदि नो हन्मि सर्पं दृष्टिवशं गतम्
yatpāpaṃ sākṣyakartṛṇāṃ dhānyasaṃgrahakāriṇām | tanme syādyadi no hanmi sarpaṃ dṛṣṭivaśaṃ gatam
Si je ne frappe pas le serpent tombé sous la puissance de mon regard, que le péché de ceux qui portent un faux témoignage et de ceux qui thésaurisent le grain retombe sur moi.
Unspecified (Nāgarakhaṇḍa, Tīrthamāhātmya narrative voice; likely a vow-like utterance within the tīrtha episode)
Type: kshetra
Scene: The hero vows that the sins of perjurers and grain-hoarders be his if he fails to kill the serpent; nearby, pilgrims and villagers with grain baskets look on, implying the social stakes of protection and fair sustenance.
FAQs
It condemns harms to society—corrupting justice and hoarding essentials—presenting dharma as protection of communal order.
The verse is in Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya (Adhyāya 29); the specific tīrtha is not named in the excerpt.
No direct prescription; however, the critique of hoarding implicitly favors dāna (charitable distribution) as dharmic.