Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 48
तस्माद्गच्छ सहस्राक्ष कुरु राज्यं त्रिविष्टपे । भूयोऽप्यत्रैव देवेश द्रष्टव्योऽस्मि न संशयः । कार्यकाले समायाते श्वेतद्वीपे यथा तथा
tasmādgaccha sahasrākṣa kuru rājyaṃ triviṣṭape | bhūyo'pyatraiva deveśa draṣṭavyo'smi na saṃśayaḥ | kāryakāle samāyāte śvetadvīpe yathā tathā
অতএব, হে সহস্রাক্ষ! ত্রিবিষ্টপে (স্বর্গে) গিয়ে রাজ্য কর। হে দেবেশ! কর্মকালের আগমনে তুমি নিশ্চয়ই এখানেই আমাকে আবার দর্শন করবে—যেমন শ্বেতদ্বীপে দর্শন কর।
Śrī Bhagavān (Vāsudeva/Janārdana)
Tirtha: Dvārakā (as the kṣetra being established/affirmed in this passage)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Indra (Sahasrākṣa) stands with folded hands before Vāsudeva; the Lord grants assurance: return to heaven to rule, and at the destined time you will behold Me here as in Śvetadvīpa.
FAQs
Worldly duty (ruling with dharma) and divine encounter (darśana) are harmonized; the Lord remains accessible at the tīrtha when the right time comes.
The ‘here’ (atra)—the tīrtha-lake where Bhagavān abides; it is also compared in sanctity to Śvetadvīpa.
No detailed rite; it instructs Indra to return to his dharmic governance, with assurance of future darśana at the tīrtha.