Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 3
तत्र तीर्थे हि यत्किंचिद्दीयते नृपसत्तम । तदक्षयफलं सर्वं जायते नात्र संशयः
tatra tīrthe hi yatkiṃciddīyate nṛpasattama | tadakṣayaphalaṃ sarvaṃ jāyate nātra saṃśayaḥ
اے بہترین بادشاہ! اس تیرتھ میں جو کچھ بھی دان دیا جائے، وہ ہر طرح سے اَکشَی (لازوال) پھل دیتا ہے—اس میں کوئی شک نہیں۔
Mārkaṇḍeya
Tirtha: Karmadī Tīrtha
Type: ghat
Listener: Nṛpasattama (best of kings)
Scene: At the river-ghāṭa, a king or pilgrim offers gifts to brāhmaṇas and the needy before a Gaṇeśa shrine; the merit is shown as an unending stream of light or an inexhaustible vessel (akṣaya-pātra motif).
FAQs
Charity performed at a sanctified place is amplified, becoming ‘akṣaya’—a lasting, non-diminishing merit.
Karmadī Tīrtha in the Revākhaṇḍa (Adhyāya 123).
Dāna (giving/charity) at the tīrtha, with emphasis that any offering there becomes imperishable in merit.