Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 55
संभाषो दर्शनं चैव सहास्माभिः कृतं त्वया । कुरुष्वानुग्रहं तस्माद्गौरेषा प्रतिगृह्यताम्
saṃbhāṣo darśanaṃ caiva sahāsmābhiḥ kṛtaṃ tvayā | kuruṣvānugrahaṃ tasmādgaureṣā pratigṛhyatām
“你已赐予我们与汝交谈，并得见汝身。故此愿你垂恩——请收下这头母牛。”
Niṣādāḥ
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: Niṣādas, hands folded, offer a cow to the sage Āpastaṃba after receiving his audience and darśana; the setting evokes a coastal sacred landscape of Prabhāsa with hermitage elements.
FAQs
Devotees seek a saint’s grace by offering rightful charity, turning giving into a sanctified exchange of merit and blessing.
Prabhāsakṣetra, as the setting where dharma is enacted through saintly encounter and go-dāna.
Go-dāna: offering a cow and requesting the worthy recipient (here, Āpastamba) to accept it as an act of anugraha.
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