Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 14
दुर्वासा उवाच । विद्यामदो धनमदस्तृतीयोऽभिजनोद्भवः । एते मदावलिप्तानामेत एव सतां दमाः
durvāsā uvāca | vidyāmado dhanamadastṛtīyo'bhijanodbhavaḥ | ete madāvaliptānāmeta eva satāṃ damāḥ
Durvāsā dit : « L’orgueil de la science, l’orgueil de la richesse, et, troisièmement, l’orgueil né d’une noble lignée : telles sont les ivresses qui souillent l’arrogant ; et ces mêmes choses deviennent, pour les vrais justes, une discipline et un frein. »
Durvāsā
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka et al. (typical frame; not explicit here)
Scene: Durvāsā, now composed yet stern, instructs assembled brāhmaṇas; three symbolic objects appear—palm-leaf manuscript (vidyā), coin-pot (dhana), and ancestral emblem (kula)—shown as either intoxicating fumes or transformed into a yoke of discipline.
FAQs
The same advantages—learning, wealth, and lineage—become downfall when they generate pride, but become virtues when governed by humility and self-restraint.
This verse functions as a dharma-teaching within the Nāgara-khaṇḍa’s Tīrtha-māhātmya narrative; the specific tīrtha is not named in this single verse.
No specific rite is prescribed here; the emphasis is ethical discipline (dama) rather than a ritual act.