Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 49
अधीत्य चतुरो वेदान्कृत्वा चैवार्चनं हरेः । स्नात्वा च सर्वतीर्थेषु जागरे तत्फलं हरेः
adhītya caturo vedānkṛtvā caivārcanaṃ hareḥ | snātvā ca sarvatīrtheṣu jāgare tatphalaṃ hareḥ
Die Frucht aus dem Studium der vier Veden, aus der Verehrung Haris und aus dem Bad in allen Tīrthas—ebendiese Frucht wird durch Haris Nachtwache erlangt.
Skanda (deduced from section context)
Tirtha: Dvārakā (Hari-jāgara within Dvārakā-māhātmya)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A symbolic tableau: on one side Vedic students, on another pilgrims bathing at many rivers, and in the center a single devotee keeping Hari’s vigil—showing all merits converging into the vigil.
FAQs
A single concentrated act of bhakti—Hari’s night-vigil—is praised as equivalent to vast scriptural study and universal pilgrimage.
Dvārakā is the implied tirtha-context, while the verse also universalizes merit across all tīrthas.
Observe Hari’s jāgara; it is taught to yield the same fruit as Veda-study, Hari-arcana, and bathing at all tīrthas.