Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 89
दानं चैव यथाशक्त्या जयादित्याग्रतः स्थितः । तस्य पुण्यस्य माहात्म्यं शृणुष्वैकमना जय
dānaṃ caiva yathāśaktyā jayādityāgrataḥ sthitaḥ | tasya puṇyasya māhātmyaṃ śṛṇuṣvaikamanā jaya
ജയാദിത്യന്റെ സന്നിധിയിൽ നിന്നുകൊണ്ട് കഴിവനുസരിച്ച് ദാനവും ചെയ്യണം. ഹേ ജയ, ഏകാഗ്രമനസ്സോടെ ആ പുണ്യത്തിന്റെ മഹിമ കേൾക്കുക.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) to the sages
Tirtha: Jayāditya
Type: kshetra
Listener: Jaya (explicitly addressed)
Scene: A devotee stands with joined palms before a radiant solar deity (Jayāditya), offering cloth and coins to a priest or needy recipient; behind, a small sanctum lamp glows, and listeners sit ready to hear the māhātmya.
FAQs
Dharma is scalable: sincere giving according to capacity, offered before the deity, becomes spiritually weighty.
The verse centers on Jayāditya’s presence; the passage context connects to Sun tīrthas like Ravikūpa/Koṭitīrtha.
Yathāśakti dāna (charity as one is able) while standing before Jayāditya.