Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 43
माहात्म्यं द्वारकायास्तु अथवा यः शृणोति च । विशेषेण तु वैशाख्यां जयंत्याश्चैव जागरे
māhātmyaṃ dvārakāyāstu athavā yaḥ śṛṇoti ca | viśeṣeṇa tu vaiśākhyāṃ jayaṃtyāścaiva jāgare
जो भक्तिभाव से द्वारका का माहात्म्य सुनता है—विशेषकर वैशाख मास में और जयन्ती की रात्रि-जागरण में—उसे विशिष्ट पुण्य प्राप्त होता है।
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced)
Tirtha: Dvārakā
Type: kshetra
Scene: A night-time assembly in Dvārakā: devotees seated with lamps, listening to a reciter narrate Dvārakā-māhātmya; the sea breeze, temple spire, and Kṛṣṇa’s presence felt. A calendar cue: Vaiśākha moon and ‘Jayantī’ vigil atmosphere.
FAQs
Hearing sacred-place glorification (māhātmya-śravaṇa) is itself a potent devotional act, intensified by auspicious calendrical times.
Dvārakā, explicitly through its māhātmya.
Listening to Dvārakā Māhātmya, particularly in Vaiśākha and during the Jayantī night-vigil (jāgara).