Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 89
तत्र तीर्थे तु यो दद्यात्कपिलादानमुत्तमम् । विधानेन तु संयुक्तं शृणु तस्यापि यत्फलम्
tatra tīrthe tu yo dadyātkapilādānamuttamam | vidhānena tu saṃyuktaṃ śṛṇu tasyāpi yatphalam
ณ ตีรถะนั้น ผู้ใดถวายทานกปิลาอันประเสริฐ (กปิลา-ทาน คือถวายโคสีน้ำตาลทอง) ตามพิธีอันถูกต้อง จงฟังผลแห่งกรรมนั้นด้วยเถิด
Śaṅkara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha (contextual)
Type: ghat
Listener: Bhārata / Narādhipa (king addressed)
Scene: On a riverbank tīrtha, a donor offers a tawny kapilā cow with ritual water, kusa grass, and dakṣiṇā to a learned brāhmaṇa; the scene foreshadows celestial reward.
FAQs
Charity becomes especially meritorious when done at a sacred place and performed with correct intention and prescribed rite (vidhi).
The tīrtha being discussed in Revā Khaṇḍa, within the Narmadā/Revā pilgrimage framework.
Kapilā-dāna (donating a tawny cow), explicitly to be done vidhānena—according to ritual procedure.