Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 19
सुप्ते देवे जगन्नाथे फलदानं प्रय च्छति । विप्राय वेदविदुषे यमलोकं न पश्यति
supte deve jagannāthe phaladānaṃ praya cchati | viprāya vedaviduṣe yamalokaṃ na paśyati
जगन्नाथ देव योगनिद्रेत असताना जो फळदान करतो आणि वेदविद् ब्राह्मणास अर्पण करतो, तो यमलोक पाहत नाही।
Skanda (deduced; exact speaker not in snippet)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A donor with a fruit basket before a Viṣṇu/Jagannātha shrine; then respectfully offering fruits to a serene Veda-knowing brāhmaṇa; in the background, a faint, vanishing silhouette of Yama’s noose symbolizing deliverance.
FAQs
Charity offered with discernment—supporting Vedic learning—purifies the giver and protects from fearful after-death states.
The verse invokes Jagannātha devotion (often associated with Purī in wider Hindu tradition), but the line itself does not explicitly name a geographic tīrtha.
During Cāturmāsya, donate fruits, especially to a Veda-learned brāhmaṇa.
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