Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 79
व्रती च तीर्थयात्री च विधवा च विशेषतः । परान्नभोजने देवि यस्यान्नं तस्य तत्फलम्
vratī ca tīrthayātrī ca vidhavā ca viśeṣataḥ | parānnabhojane devi yasyānnaṃ tasya tatphalam
ورت رکھنے والا، تیرتھ یاتری اور خصوصاً بیوہ—اے دیوی—اگر دوسرے کا اَنّ کھائے تو اُس عمل کا پھل اُسی کو ملتا ہے جس کا وہ اَنّ ہے۔
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī/Umā (addressed: devi)
Scene: Three figures—vratin with staff, a pilgrim with travel bundle, and a widow in plain attire—stand before an offered meal; a subtle symbolic stream of ‘phala’ flows back toward the donor, illustrating fruit-transfer.
FAQs
For those under vow and pilgrimage discipline, dependence through food can shift the spiritual ‘fruit’ away; hence self-restraint is emphasized.
The teaching occurs within Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya, thus applying to Prabhāsa-kṣetra pilgrimage conduct.
An āhāra-niyama: avoid eating others’ food; otherwise the merit/result is attributed to the food-giver.