Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 25
दण्डवत्प्रणमेद्भूमौ नमः कृष्णप्रियेति च । विप्रपत्नीश्च विप्रांश्च पूजयेच्छक्तितो द्विजाः
daṇḍavatpraṇamedbhūmau namaḥ kṛṣṇapriyeti ca | viprapatnīśca viprāṃśca pūjayecchaktito dvijāḥ
Man soll sich in voller Daṇḍavat-Prostration zur Erde niederwerfen und sprechen: „Ehrerbietung, o Geliebte Kṛṣṇas.“ Und nach Kräften, o Zweimalgeborene, soll man die Frauen der Brāhmaṇas und die Brāhmaṇas selbst ehren.
Skanda (deduced; concluding instruction)
Tirtha: Dvārakā
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvijottama/dvijāḥ (addressed audience)
Scene: A pilgrim at Dvārakā bows fully to the earth at the temple threshold, hands folded, while brāhmaṇas and their wives are respectfully welcomed with offerings and seats.
FAQs
True worship culminates in humility and honoring dharma-bearers—devotion to the deity extends into respectful social ethics.
Dvārakā, in the completion-rites of Rukmiṇī worship described in the Māhātmya.
Perform daṇḍavat praṇāma with the salutation to Kṛṣṇapriyā, and honor brāhmaṇas and their wives according to one’s means.