Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 72
कन्याभिदूषकश्चैव दानं दत्त्वा तु तापकः । शूद्रस्तु कपिलापानी ब्राह्मणो मांसभोजनी
kanyābhidūṣakaścaiva dānaṃ dattvā tu tāpakaḥ | śūdrastu kapilāpānī brāhmaṇo māṃsabhojanī
Bahkan orang yang mencemari kesucian seorang gadis, dan orang yang menimbulkan penderitaan walau telah memberi dāna yang ditetapkan—mendapat kelegaan melalui dāna ini. Demikian juga śūdra yang ketagih arak kapilā, dan brāhmaṇa yang hidup dengan memakan daging—menjadi disucikan oleh dāna tersebut.
Unspecified (Revākhaṇḍa dialogue context; a Purāṇic narrator instructing a king)
Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: nṛpa (king)
Scene: A redemptive scene: the offender offers a prescribed gift to a worthy recipient near the river; the sage assures purification; symbolic items indicate intoxicant and meat being renounced.
FAQs
Purāṇic dharma emphasizes that sincere, properly performed dāna can function as prāyaścitta, leading to purification even for grave wrongdoing.
The larger context is Revākhaṇḍa (Narmadā/Revā region), where merit-making acts are taught in connection with sacred geography and rites.
Giving the prescribed dāna (expanded in the following verses as Vaitaraṇī-dhenu-dāna) as an expiatory act.