Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 80
अत्युपयुक्ताः सद्भिर्गतागतैरहरहः सुनिर्विण्णाः । कृपणजनसंनिकाशं संप्राप्यार्थाः स्वपंतीह
atyupayuktāḥ sadbhirgatāgatairaharahaḥ sunirviṇṇāḥ | kṛpaṇajanasaṃnikāśaṃ saṃprāpyārthāḥ svapaṃtīha
Harta yang banyak digunakan oleh orang baik, dengan keluar masuk tanpa henti dalam khidmat dan sedekah, menjadi letih hari demi hari. Namun apabila sampai ke lingkungan si kedekut, kekayaan di sini seakan tertidur—terbiar dan tidak berbuah.
Narrative voice within Tīrthamāhātmya (contextual speaker not explicit in the excerpt)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Animated coins and grain-sacks moving joyfully between households of the generous, then turning dull and ‘sleeping’ as they enter the dark storehouse of a miser.
FAQs
Resources become meaningful when they circulate in dharmic use; hoarding makes wealth inert and spiritually unproductive.
No particular tīrtha is named in this verse; it is a general moral teaching within a tīrtha-mahātmya chapter.
An implied prescription toward dāna and service—keeping wealth active in righteous acts rather than letting it stagnate.