Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 22
दानैः सर्वैश्च किं तस्य सर्वतीर्थावगाहनैः । द्वारकायाश्च माहात्म्यं येनेदं लिखितं गृहे
dānaiḥ sarvaiśca kiṃ tasya sarvatīrthāvagāhanaiḥ | dvārakāyāśca māhātmyaṃ yenedaṃ likhitaṃ gṛhe
What need has he of all charities and of bathing in all holy places—he by whom this Dvārakā Māhātmya has been written in his own home?
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced)
Tirtha: Dvārakā
Type: kshetra
Scene: A household shrine room where a devotee completes the written Dvārakā Māhātmya; around the manuscript appear symbolic miniatures of many tīrthas (rivers, ghats, peaks) dissolving into the single text, indicating ‘all-tīrtha’ equivalence.
FAQs
The māhātmya of a supreme tīrtha can concentrate pilgrimage-merit: writing and keeping Dvārakā’s sacred account is extolled as equivalent to extensive charity and universal tīrtha-bathing.
Dvārakā, presented as so meritorious that its māhātmya, when written and kept at home, rivals many other religious acts.
Writing the Dvārakā Māhātmya and keeping it in one’s home; implicitly contrasted with dāna and tīrtha-snāna.