Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 27
यस्य धर्मार्थमप्यर्थास्तस्यापि न हि दृश्यते । प्रक्षालनाद्धि पंकस्य दूरादस्पर्शनं वरम्
yasya dharmārthamapyarthāstasyāpi na hi dṛśyate | prakṣālanāddhi paṃkasya dūrādasparśanaṃ varam
جس کے پاس دولت ہو اور وہ کہے کہ یہ دھرم کے لیے ہے، اس کے لیے بھی سلامتی نظر نہیں آتی۔ کیونکہ کیچڑ کو دھونے سے بہتر ہے کہ اسے دور ہی سے نہ چھوا جائے۔
Kaśyapa (continuing the discourse)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A teacher shows two paths: one person steps into mud then washes; another walks around it untouched. The mud is labeled ‘artha’ and the clean path ‘dharma/śreyas’. Coastal Prabhāsa and pilgrims frame the moral tableau.
FAQs
Good intentions do not remove the spiritual risk of attachment; avoidance is safer than later purification.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, where dharmic discernment is taught as part of its Māhātmya.
No explicit ritual; it uses a purity analogy to recommend preemptive restraint.