Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 5
सुवर्णं तत्र देयं तु अजिनं कंबलं तथा । आषाढे त्वमावास्यायां यत्किञ्चिद्दीयते ध्रुवम्
suvarṇaṃ tatra deyaṃ tu ajinaṃ kaṃbalaṃ tathā | āṣāḍhe tvamāvāsyāyāṃ yatkiñciddīyate dhruvam
त्या पवित्र स्थानी सुवर्ण, मृगचर्म (अजिन) व कंबळ यांचे दान करावे; आषाढ महिन्याच्या अमावास्येला जे काही दिले जाते ते निश्चितच फलदायी ठरते।
Īśvara (Śiva) to Devī (deduced from immediate continuation in Adhyāya 297 and the ongoing māhātmya narration)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Ṛṣitoyā context)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis/assembly
Scene: Pilgrims at Prabhāsa present gifts—gold, deer-skin, and woolen blanket—to a seated brāhmaṇa/ascetic on Āṣāḍha amāvāsyā; moonless night ambience with lamps and temple silhouette.
FAQs
Charity offered at a sanctified tīrtha and sacred lunar time becomes certain (dhruva) in spiritual result.
Prabhāsa Kṣetra (within the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa), in the context of the Ṛṣitoyā-nadī māhātmya.
Dāna on Āṣāḍha Amāvāsyā—especially gifts like gold, deer-skin, and a blanket—is prescribed as highly meritorious.