Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 70
न च लोभेन चर्तव्यं विषमस्थं तृणं क्वचित् । लोभाद्विनाशो जंतूनामिह लोके परत्र च
na ca lobhena cartavyaṃ viṣamasthaṃ tṛṇaṃ kvacit | lobhādvināśo jaṃtūnāmiha loke paratra ca
कभी भी लोभ से प्रेरित होकर, विषम स्थान में पड़े तिनके के लिए भी मत बढ़ना। लोभ से प्राणियों का विनाश इस लोक में भी होता है और परलोक में भी।
Mother (unnamed, within Pulastya’s narration)
Tirtha: Arbuda (contextual)
Type: peak
Listener: Putraka
Scene: A blade of grass near a precipice or snake-hole; the child reaches, then withdraws remembering the counsel—visual metaphor for refusing petty greed in dangerous contexts.
FAQs
Greed is spiritually and practically destructive; even minor gains are not worth dharmic risk.
No specific sacred site is praised in this verse; it is ethical counsel framed within the Arbuda Khaṇḍa narrative.
None; the verse warns against greed as a moral hazard.
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