Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 20
चकार बहुदानानि लोकानां हितकाम्यया । यावदर्चयते ह्येवं रुद्रोऽपि स्वयमागतः
cakāra bahudānāni lokānāṃ hitakāmyayā | yāvadarcayate hyevaṃ rudro'pi svayamāgataḥ
লোকসকলৰ মঙ্গল কামনাৰে তেওঁ বহু দান-ধৰ্ম কৰিলে। এইদৰে পূজা চলি থাকোঁতেই ৰুদ্ৰ স্বয়ং দেহধাৰী হৈ তাত উপস্থিত হ’ল।
Narrator (contextual; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa)
Tirtha: Dharmāraṇya (contextual kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Balāhaka distributes gifts to people and priests near the newly established liṅga; as lamps flicker, Rudra manifests—radiant, ash-smeared, with matted locks—approaching the shrine.
FAQs
Selfless charity joined with steady worship draws divine grace—so potent that Rudra is said to manifest directly.
Dharmāraṇya is presented as a spiritually responsive sacred landscape where devotion quickly bears fruit.
Bahu-dāna (multiple charities) and continuous arcana (ritual worship).
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