Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 82
यः सम्यक्छ्रद्धया युक्तो वसोर्द्धारां प्रदास्यति । स कामं मनसा ध्यातं समवाप्स्यति कृत्स्नशः
yaḥ samyakchraddhayā yukto vasorddhārāṃ pradāsyati | sa kāmaṃ manasā dhyātaṃ samavāpsyati kṛtsnaśaḥ
యథార్థ శ్రద్ధతో వసోర్ధారాను అర్పించువాడు, మనసులో ధ్యానించిన కోరికను సంపూర్ణంగా పొందును।
Narrative voice (contextual Purāṇic narrator; likely Sūta continuing the tīrtha-māhātmya)
FAQs
Faith-filled sacred giving (dāna), especially Vasordhārā, is portrayed as a powerful dharmic act that brings complete fruition of one’s rightly held intention.
The verse emphasizes the rite of Vasordhārā within the Tīrthamāhātmya context; the immediate snippet does not name a specific tīrtha, but it functions as part of the pilgrimage-glorification narrative.
Vasordhārā-dāna—offering a continuous ‘stream’ of ghee as a sacred gift/oblation, performed with proper śraddhā (faith).