Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 8
सांब उवाच । नमस्कारेण किं कार्यमृषीणां च जितात्मनाम् । आशीर्वादेन तेषां च तपोहानिः प्रजायते
sāṃba uvāca | namaskāreṇa kiṃ kāryamṛṣīṇāṃ ca jitātmanām | āśīrvādena teṣāṃ ca tapohāniḥ prajāyate
Sāmba dit : À quoi bon des salutations envers des sages maîtres d’eux-mêmes ? Et lorsqu’ils accordent des bénédictions, leur puissance d’austérité s’en trouve diminuée.
Sāmba
Tirtha: Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and the Naimiṣāraṇya ṛṣis (frame)
Scene: Sāmba, proud and argumentative, questions the value of saluting self-controlled sages; Nārada stands as the target of the rebuke within a sacred Prabhāsa setting.
FAQs
Misusing ‘logic’ to deny reverence is portrayed as adharma; humility is not optional even before the self-controlled.
None in this verse; it is part of the Dvāravatī episode leading toward the Prabhāsa-kṣetra tīrtha narrative.
Indirectly, it discusses namaskāra and blessings; the text contextually upholds proper salutation to sages as correct conduct.