Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 72
कन्याभिदूषकश्चैव दानं दत्त्वा तु तापकः । शूद्रस्तु कपिलापानी ब्राह्मणो मांसभोजनी
kanyābhidūṣakaścaiva dānaṃ dattvā tu tāpakaḥ | śūdrastu kapilāpānī brāhmaṇo māṃsabhojanī
Selbst wer die Keuschheit einer Jungfrau befleckt hat und wer Qual verursacht hat—nachdem er die vorgeschriebene dāna dargebracht hat—findet Erleichterung. Ebenso werden ein Śūdra, der dem kapilā-Trank verfallen ist, und ein Brāhmaṇa, der vom Fleischessen lebt, durch diese dāna gereinigt.
Unspecified (Revākhaṇḍa dialogue context; a Purāṇic narrator instructing a king)
Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: nṛpa (king)
Scene: A redemptive scene: the offender offers a prescribed gift to a worthy recipient near the river; the sage assures purification; symbolic items indicate intoxicant and meat being renounced.
FAQs
Purāṇic dharma emphasizes that sincere, properly performed dāna can function as prāyaścitta, leading to purification even for grave wrongdoing.
The larger context is Revākhaṇḍa (Narmadā/Revā region), where merit-making acts are taught in connection with sacred geography and rites.
Giving the prescribed dāna (expanded in the following verses as Vaitaraṇī-dhenu-dāna) as an expiatory act.