Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 7
यथायथा करं भूपास्ता मां गृह्णंति लोलुपाः । तथातथा मनःक्षोभो हृदये संप्रजायते
yathāyathā karaṃ bhūpāstā māṃ gṛhṇaṃti lolupāḥ | tathātathā manaḥkṣobho hṛdaye saṃprajāyate
เมื่อใดก็ตามที่พระราชาผู้โลภเก็บส่วยภาษีจากข้าพเจ้า เมื่อนั้นเองความกระสับกระส่ายแห่งจิตก็เกิดขึ้นในดวงหทัยตามสัดส่วน
A king/ruler (listener later addresses Vasiṣṭha; speaker not explicitly named in this snippet)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A weary taxpayer (or personified ‘I’—a subject/land/merchant) offering coins while a greedy king’s collectors seize more; the heart area shown symbolically with ripples or agitation, contrasting with a distant calm tīrtha river.
FAQs
Greed-driven governance disturbs the ruler’s own heart; inner turmoil signals deviation from dharma.
This verse sets up the king’s distress before asking for the supreme tīrtha; the specific tīrtha is not named in this line.
None here; it is a moral reflection on taxation and mental agitation.