Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 38
यस्तं पूजयते भक्त्या हृषीकेशे नृपार्बुदे । स याति विष्णुसालोक्यं प्रसादाच्च हरेर्नृप
yastaṃ pūjayate bhaktyā hṛṣīkeśe nṛpārbude | sa yāti viṣṇusālokyaṃ prasādācca harernṛpa
हे अर्बुदनृपा, जो हृषीकेशाची भक्तिभावाने पूजा करतो, तो हे राजन्, हरीच्या प्रसादाने विष्णुसालोक्य प्राप्त करतो।
Unnamed Purāṇic narrator (contextual speaker within Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Hṛṣīkeśa (Arbuda)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Arbuda king (nṛpārbuda)
Scene: A devotee offers heartfelt worship before Hṛṣīkeśa; the deity’s grace is shown as a luminous descent, with a vision of Vaikuṇṭha-like realm indicating sālokya.
FAQs
Devotional worship at a sanctified place is said to mature into divine proximity—Viṣṇu-sālokya—through grace.
Hṛṣīkeśa in the Arbuda section of the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa.
Bhakti-based pūjā (devotional worship) of Hṛṣīkeśa.