Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 87
कृपणानां प्रसादेन शेषो धारयते महीम् । यतस्ते भूगतं वित्तं कुर्वते तस्य चोष्मणा
kṛpaṇānāṃ prasādena śeṣo dhārayate mahīm | yataste bhūgataṃ vittaṃ kurvate tasya coṣmaṇā
കൃപണരുടെ ‘പ്രസാദം’ കൊണ്ടാണ് ശേഷൻ ഭൂമിയെ ധരിക്കുന്നത്; കാരണം അവർ തങ്ങളുടെ ധനം ഭൂമിക്കടിയിൽ കുഴിച്ചിടുന്നു, ആ മറഞ്ഞ നിധിയുടെ ഉഷ്ണത കൊണ്ട് ഭൂമിയും ചൂടേറുന്നു।
Narrator (context: Maṇibhadra-upākhyāna; explicit speaker not marked in this verse)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Ananta-Śeṣa beneath the earth, many-hooded, bearing Bhū-devī; above, misers bury pots of gold, and the earth glows faintly—comic cosmic linkage between buried treasure and ‘warming’ the earth.
FAQs
Even cosmic imagery is used to condemn hoarding: burying wealth is a burden on the earth; dharma prefers wealth offered in charity and sacred works.
The verse belongs to the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra Māhātmya stream within Nāgara Khaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya.
No explicit rite; the ethical prescription is to avoid kṛpaṇatā (miserliness) and practice dāna.