Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 54
अन्यानि च प्रचिक्षेप शतशोऽथ सहस्रशः । न तृप्तिर्जायते तासां तथापि द्विजसत्तमाः
anyāni ca pracikṣepa śataśo'tha sahasraśaḥ | na tṛptirjāyate tāsāṃ tathāpi dvijasattamāḥ
اس نے اور بھی نذرانے سینکڑوں بلکہ ہزاروں کی تعداد میں پیش کیے؛ پھر بھی، اے افضلِ دِویجوں، اُن کی تسکین پیدا نہ ہوئی۔
Narrator addressing dvijasattama (best of twice-born) (explicit vocative)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvija-sattamāḥ (addressed audience)
Scene: A queen repeatedly distributes heaps of gifts—piled cloth, coins, vessels—yet the recipients’ faces remain unsatisfied; the atmosphere hints at the futility of endless giving without inner contentment.
FAQs
Without contentment (tṛpti/saṃtoṣa), abundance cannot fulfill; desire expands even when gifts multiply.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; the lesson is ethical within the Tīrthamāhātmya narrative frame.
Ongoing dāna (distribution of gifts) is described; the verse implicitly teaches that inner discipline must accompany outward giving.