Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 61
निधाय वंशपात्रेऽपि नारी दोषात्प्रमुच्यते । प्राप्नुवंति च देवाश्च अग्निष्टोमफलं नृप
nidhāya vaṃśapātre'pi nārī doṣātpramucyate | prāpnuvaṃti ca devāśca agniṣṭomaphalaṃ nṛpa
แม้เพียงวางเครื่องบูชานั้นลงในภาชนะสืบวงศ์ นารีก็พ้นจากมลทินได้ โอ้พระราชา เหล่าเทวะทั้งหลายก็ได้ผลแห่งยัญอัคนิษโฏมด้วย
Unknown (Dharmāraṇya Khaṇḍa narrative voice; explicit vocative suggests address to a king)
Tirtha: Dharmāraṇya (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Nṛpa (King)
Scene: A ritual scene: an offering is reverently placed into a lineage-vessel before a sacred fire; devas subtly receive the oblation while a woman’s burden of doṣa is lifted; the king listens as the narrator declares Agniṣṭoma-equivalent fruit.
FAQs
A simple tīrtha-based act of dāna, done in the prescribed way, can equal the merit of major Vedic sacrifices and remove personal afflictions.
The Dharmāraṇya tīrtha sphere centered on Devasaras and Mokṣeśvara.
Place the offering in a ‘vaṃśapātra’ (lineage vessel) as part of the rite; its merit is likened to Agniṣṭoma.