Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 15
क्षीरिणी वापि चित्रा गौस्तत्क्षीरायद्घृतं भवेत् । तद्दौहित्रमिति प्रोक्तं दैवे पित्र्ये च कर्मणि
kṣīriṇī vāpi citrā gaustatkṣīrāyadghṛtaṃ bhavet | taddauhitramiti proktaṃ daive pitrye ca karmaṇi
ومن بقرةٍ درورٍ باللبن—ولو كانت مُرقَّطة—فإن السمن المصفّى (ghee) الناتج من لبنها يُسمّى «داوهيترا». وهذا السمن محمودٌ في قرابين الآلهة وفي شعائر الأسلاف معًا.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) speaking to the sages (deduced from Purāṇic narration style within māhātmya sections)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A ritual kitchen/altar scene: milk from a cow is churned into ghee; the priest labels the clarified butter as ‘dauhitṛa’ and pours it into a ladle for deva-homa and into śrāddha offerings for pitṛs.
FAQs
Ritual offerings gain full merit when made with properly approved, pure substances—especially in deva- and pitṛ-rites.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra (the sacred region praised in the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya of the Skanda Purāṇa).
Use ghee prepared from the milk of a milk-giving cow as an especially approved offering for both divine worship and śrāddha (ancestral rites).