Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 31
राज्यार्थी लभते राज्यं धनार्थी लभते धनम् । पुत्रार्थी लभते पुत्रान्सौख्यार्थी लभते सुखम्
rājyārthī labhate rājyaṃ dhanārthī labhate dhanam | putrārthī labhate putrānsaukhyārthī labhate sukham
राज्याची इच्छा करणारा राज्य प्राप्त करतो, धनाची इच्छा करणारा धन प्राप्त करतो। पुत्राची इच्छा करणारा पुत्र प्राप्त करतो, आणि सुखाची इच्छा करणारा सुख प्राप्त करतो।
Īśvara (Śiva), inferred
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Four petitioners approach Bhāskara: a king-seeker with crown offering, a merchant with coins, a couple seeking a child, and a householder seeking happiness; Sūrya radiates impartial grace.
FAQs
Devotion performed with faith is portrayed as a dhārmic means to fulfill legitimate human aims (artha, kāma) without abandoning sacred discipline.
The promise is embedded in the Prabhāsa sacred setting and the Sūrya-centered practice described in this chapter.
Implicitly, the recitation/hearing and worship described earlier—whose fruits are now enumerated as phalaśruti.