Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 94
दत्त्वा दानान्यनेकानि कृत्वा नाना व्रतानि च । यथालाभानवाप्नोति तथा स्तुत्याऽनया नरः
dattvā dānānyanekāni kṛtvā nānā vratāni ca | yathālābhānavāpnoti tathā stutyā'nayā naraḥ
अनेक दाने देऊन व नाना व्रते करून जसा अपेक्षित फललाभ होतो, तसाच फललाभ या स्तुतीनेही मनुष्याला होतो।
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī-kshetra (implicit)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Sages/pilgrims (contextual)
Scene: A split-panel: on one side, a devotee performs many vratas and gives dāna; on the other, the same devotee recites the Dhruva-stuti with focused devotion—both sides balanced by a scale showing equal ‘phala’.
FAQs
Devotional praise can concentrate the merits of many external observances when done sincerely.
The verse belongs to Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s devotional framework, consistent with Kāśī’s theme of concentrated merit.
Rely on recitation of this stuti as a merit-bearing practice comparable to dāna and vrata.