Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 56
तिलान्कृष्णान्नरस्तत्र ब्राह्मणेभ्यो ददाति यः । ब्रह्महत्यादिभिः पापैः स मर्त्त्यो मुच्यते ध्रुवम्
tilānkṛṣṇānnarastatra brāhmaṇebhyo dadāti yaḥ | brahmahatyādibhiḥ pāpaiḥ sa marttyo mucyate dhruvam
അവിടെ ബ്രാഹ്മണർക്കു കറുത്ത എള്ള് ദാനം ചെയ്യുന്ന മനുഷ്യൻ, ബ്രഹ്മഹത്യാദി പാപങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നുപോലും തീർച്ചയായും മോചിതനാകുന്നു।
Pulastya (deduced)
Tirtha: Kṛṣṇa-tīrtha
Type: kshetra
Listener: Rājendra (king) implied by surrounding address
Scene: A devotee offers a small heap of black sesame into a brāhmaṇa’s hands beside ritual vessels; the atmosphere suggests cleansing—dark sins symbolically ‘lift’ like smoke dissipating into light.
FAQs
Charity performed at a tīrtha, especially offerings connected with śrāddha like sesame, is presented as a potent purifier even for grave wrongdoing.
The instruction belongs to the Kṛṣṇa-tīrtha glorification within Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa’s Arbuda Khaṇḍa.
Tiladāna—donating black sesame seeds to brāhmaṇas at the tīrtha.