Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 11
एता ददाति यो विप्रा एतेषां च महात्मनाम् । चक्रवर्ती भवेन्नूनमेतदाह पितामहः
etā dadāti yo viprā eteṣāṃ ca mahātmanām | cakravartī bhavennūnametadāha pitāmahaḥ
एताः यो ददाति विप्राः एतेषां महात्मनाम्। स नूनं चक्रवर्ती भवेत्—इति पितामहः अब्रवीत्।
Sūta (deduced from narrative flow; citation attributed to Brahmā within the verse)
Type: kshetra
Listener: viprāḥ (O brāhmaṇas)
Scene: Brahmā (Pitāmaha) as celestial authority pronounces the fruit of the dānas; brāhmaṇas listen; a donor is shown later crowned as cakravartin, holding a discus-like emblem of universal rule (chakra) in symbolic form.
FAQs
Charity performed according to śāstric prescription and offered to divine forms yields extraordinary merit and worldly-spiritual elevation.
The Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra context continues, focusing on dāna in the sacred proximity of the Ekādaśa Rudras.
Giving the enumerated gifts (notably go-dāna types) to the designated divine recipients; the verse states the resulting phala (cakravartin status).
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