Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 22
कुर्वंत्यनशनं ये तु स्वर्गद्वारे जितेंद्रियाः । प्रयांति परमं स्थानं ये च मासोपवासिनः
kurvaṃtyanaśanaṃ ye tu svargadvāre jiteṃdriyāḥ | prayāṃti paramaṃ sthānaṃ ye ca māsopavāsinaḥ
जे जितेंद्रिय होऊन स्वर्गद्वारी अनशन करतात, आणि जे मासोपवास (एक महिन्याचा उपवास) पाळतात—ते परम धामास प्राप्त होतात।
Brahmā (deduced; Vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍa narrative voice)
Tirtha: Svargadvāra
Type: ghat
Scene: Ascetic pilgrims at Svargadvāra: some standing in prayer, others seated in meditation, visibly self-controlled; a calendar-like passage of days suggests month-long fasting; a luminous ‘supreme abode’ motif appears above as reward.
FAQs
Self-mastery expressed through fasting becomes especially fruitful when practiced at a sanctified tīrtha.
Svargadvāra in Ayodhyā, praised as a place where austerities quickly bear transcendent results.
Anaśana (fasting) and māsopavāsa (a month-long fast), undertaken with sense-restraint.