Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 7
सूत उवाच । तदुद्दिश्य प्रदातव्यमेकैकस्य पृथक्पृथक् । प्रत्यक्षाश्च महाभाग दातव्या धेनवः क्रमात्
sūta uvāca | taduddiśya pradātavyamekaikasya pṛthakpṛthak | pratyakṣāśca mahābhāga dātavyā dhenavaḥ kramāt
સૂતે કહ્યું— તેમને ધ્યાનમાં રાખીને, એક એકને અલગ અલગ રીતે અર્પણ કરવું જોઈએ. હે મહાભાગ, ક્રમ પ્રમાણે પ્રત્યક્ષ (વાસ્તવિક) ધેનુઓનું દાન પણ આપવું જોઈએ.
Sūta
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis
Scene: Sūta instructs the sages: offerings must be given separately to each; a line of cows, garlanded and calm, stands ready for gifting; a brāhmaṇa recipient waits with ritual vessels as the sequence proceeds.
FAQs
Devotion is made concrete through disciplined generosity—giving intentionally, individually, and with real offerings.
The instruction belongs to the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra Māhātmya setting, guiding how merit is earned there through dāna.
Offer dāna to each intended recipient separately, and perform gau-dāna (gift of actual cows) in a prescribed order.
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