Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 21
अगस्त्य उवाच । एवमस्त्विति संप्रोच्याभवद्धर्महरिर्विभुः । स्मरणादेव मुच्येत नरो धर्महरेर्विभोः
agastya uvāca | evamastviti saṃprocyābhavaddharmaharirvibhuḥ | smaraṇādeva mucyeta naro dharmaharervibhoḥ
अगस्त्य म्हणाला—‘एवमस्तु’ असे म्हणून तो सर्वव्यापी प्रभू ‘धर्म-हरी’ म्हणून प्रसिद्ध झाला. त्या समर्थ धर्म-हरीचे केवळ स्मरण केले तरी मनुष्य मुक्त होतो।
Agastya
Tirtha: Dharma-Hari
Type: kshetra
Scene: Sage Agastya narrates to an audience, describing how Hari accepted the name ‘Dharma-Hari’; a luminous Vishnu form appears as if sanctioned by the words ‘evam astu’, with the name inscribed or symbolically shown.
FAQs
The text elevates smaraṇa (remembrance) of the Lord as a direct purifier and liberator, especially in a tīrtha-context.
Ayodhyā, through the emergence and glorification of the local form/name “Dharma-Hari.”
Smaraṇa—devotional remembrance of Dharma-Hari—is presented as efficacious in itself.