Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 39
देवतानां गुरूणां च मातापित्रोश्च कामतः । पुण्यदः समवाप्नोति तदेवाष्टगुणं फलम्
devatānāṃ gurūṇāṃ ca mātāpitrośca kāmataḥ | puṇyadaḥ samavāpnoti tadevāṣṭaguṇaṃ phalam
जो देवता, गुरु तसेच माता-पिता यांच्या निमित्ताने स्वेच्छेने पुण्यदान करतो, तो तेच फळ आठपट होऊन प्राप्त करतो।
Skanda (as narrator of Prabhāsa-māhātmya)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A donor at Prabhāsa offers gifts with folded hands: first to a deity’s shrine, then to a seated guru, then to parents; an unseen ‘eightfold’ radiance motif suggests multiplied merit.
FAQs
Dedication of one’s charity and worship to devas, gurus, and parents greatly amplifies spiritual merit.
The merit-doctrine is taught within the Prabhāsa Kṣetra tīrtha context.
Offer dāna/puṇya with intentional dedication (saṅkalpa) toward devas, gurus, and parents.