Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 33
पक्वान्नैर्मोदकाद्यैश्च तर्पयेद्भक्तिभावतः । तर्प्यमाणे द्विजैकस्मिन्सहस्रफलमश्नुते
pakvānnairmodakādyaiśca tarpayedbhaktibhāvataḥ | tarpyamāṇe dvijaikasminsahasraphalamaśnute
وبالأطعمة المطبوخة وبالمودَكا وما شابه، ينبغي إرضاؤهم بروحٍ من التعبّد. فإذا رُضيَ حتى براهمنٌ واحد على هذا النحو، نال المرء ثمرةً مضاعفة ألف مرة.
Unspecified narrator within Dharmāraṇyakhaṇḍa (deductively a Purāṇic teacher addressing a King)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Devotees present steaming cooked rice, curries, and modakas on brass/leaf plates to a seated brāhmaṇa; the giver’s hands are folded in devotion, emphasizing bhakti-bhāva.
FAQs
Devotional giving magnifies merit; sincerely satisfying even one worthy guest yields vast spiritual fruit.
The verse is a general phalaśruti within Dharmāraṇya’s ritual instructions, not a tīrtha eulogy.
Feed with cooked dishes and sweets like modaka, doing so with bhakti; satisfying one brāhmaṇa grants thousandfold merit.