Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 134
हिरण्यादीन्यदाच्चैव महादानानि षोडश । यो यदर्थयते तत्र सामान्यः प्राकृतो जनः । निजकर्मानुसारेण स लेभे च तदेव हि
hiraṇyādīnyadāccaiva mahādānāni ṣoḍaśa | yo yadarthayate tatra sāmānyaḥ prākṛto janaḥ | nijakarmānusāreṇa sa lebhe ca tadeva hi
اس نے سونا وغیرہ اور سولہ عظیم دان بھی دیے۔ وہاں کوئی عام آدمی جو کچھ مانگتا، وہ اپنے ہی کرم کے مطابق بعینہٖ وہی پا لیتا تھا۔
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Varānanā Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Soma distributes gold and the ‘sixteen great gifts’; ordinary pilgrims approach with varied requests; a subtle cosmic balance scale symbolizes karma determining each person’s received boon.
FAQs
Charity at a tīrtha is powerful, yet results unfold in harmony with one’s own karma—linking grace with moral causality.
Prabhāsakṣetra, presented as a place where dāna becomes especially fruitful.
Performance of mahādānas—especially the ‘sixteen great gifts’—and giving gold and other valuables.