Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 48
श्रोत्रिये कुलसम्पन्ने शुचिष्मति जितेन्द्रिये । श्रुताध्ययनसम्पन्ने दम्भहीने क्रियान्विते । त्रयोदशाहःस्वेकैकं त्रयोदशगुणं भवेत्
śrotriye kulasampanne śuciṣmati jitendriye | śrutādhyayanasampanne dambhahīne kriyānvite | trayodaśāhaḥsvekaikaṃ trayodaśaguṇaṃ bhavet
Kepada seorang śrotriya—berketurunan baik, suci, menundukkan indera, lengkap dengan ilmu śruti dan pengajian, bebas daripada riya, serta tekun dalam amalan dharma—setiap dana yang diberi dalam upacara tiga belas hari menjadi berbuah tiga belas kali ganda.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced from Āvantya Khaṇḍa narrative style)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) tīrtha sphere (contextual)
Type: river
Scene: A dignified śrotriya brāhmaṇa—clean, restrained, holding scripture—receives a modest daily gift; a calendar-like motif or thirteen lamps suggests the thirteen-day rite and the ‘thirteenfold’ fruit.
FAQs
Charity bears maximum fruit when offered to genuinely qualified, disciplined, and sincere recipients.
The instruction belongs to the Śūlabheda tīrtha-māhātmya context, explaining how dāna there becomes especially fruitful.
During a thirteen-day observance, each gift given to a qualified śrotriya is said to yield thirteenfold merit.