Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 80
एष ते तनयः पूर्वजन्मनि ब्राह्मणोत्तमः । प्रतिग्रहैर्वयो निन्ये न यज्ञाद्यैः सुकर्मभिः
eṣa te tanayaḥ pūrvajanmani brāhmaṇottamaḥ | pratigrahairvayo ninye na yajñādyaiḥ sukarmabhiḥ
ਇਹ ਤੇਰਾ ਪੁੱਤਰ ਪਿਛਲੇ ਜਨਮ ਵਿੱਚ ਉੱਤਮ ਬ੍ਰਾਹਮਣ ਸੀ। ਪਰ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਯਜਨਾਂ ਆਦਿ ਸੁਕਰਮਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਨਹੀਂ, ਸਗੋਂ (ਅਨੁਚਿਤ) ਦਾਨ-ਪ੍ਰਤਿਗ੍ਰਹਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਹੀ ਆਪਣੀ ਉਮਰ ਗੁਜ਼ਾਰੀ।
Śāṇḍilya (deduced from immediate narrative context)
Listener: Brāhmaṇa woman (dvijabhāminī)
Scene: A sage explaining karmic causality to a distressed brāhmaṇa woman; a faint vignette of the son’s past life—receiving gifts—contrasted with neglected sacrificial fires.
FAQs
One’s present condition can reflect past conduct; mere livelihood through taking gifts without dharmic works leads to adverse results.
No tīrtha is mentioned; the verse focuses on karmic causality and brāhmaṇical duty.
It implicitly upholds yajña and other su-karmas as the proper dharmic path, rather than dependence on pratigraha.