Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 96
उपस्थानं ततः कुर्याच्छाखोक्तविधिना ततः । सहस्रकृत्वो गायत्र्याः शतकृत्वोथवा पुनः
upasthānaṃ tataḥ kuryācchākhoktavidhinā tataḥ | sahasrakṛtvo gāyatryāḥ śatakṛtvothavā punaḥ
Then one should perform the upasthāna (formal standing worship) according to the procedure taught in one’s own Vedic śākhā; thereafter one should repeat the Gāyatrī a thousand times—or again, a hundred times.
Traditional Purāṇic narrator (contextual instruction within Dharmāraṇya Khaṇḍa; speaker not explicit in the snippet)
Scene: A practitioner stands facing the sun at twilight performing upasthāna with folded hands; beside him a palm-leaf/śākhā text and a teacher indicate lineage; a rosary marks the thousand/ hundred count discipline.
FAQs
Regular Gāyatrī-japa grounded in one’s Vedic discipline is upheld as a central purifier and stabilizer of dharma.
The verse is primarily about nitya-karma (daily rite) rather than a particular pilgrimage geography.
Perform upasthāna per one’s śākhā and chant Gāyatrī either 1000 times or 100 times.