Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 38
पुलस्त्य उवाच । एवमुक्तः स राजेंद्रो दिव्यकांतिवपुस्तदा । तं विमानमथारुह्य गतः स्वर्गं च तैः सह
pulastya uvāca | evamuktaḥ sa rājeṃdro divyakāṃtivapustadā | taṃ vimānamathāruhya gataḥ svargaṃ ca taiḥ saha
ਪੁਲਸਤ੍ਯ ਨੇ ਕਿਹਾ: ਇਸ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਉਪਦੇਸ਼ ਸੁਣ ਕੇ ਉਹ ਰਾਜਸ਼੍ਰੇਸ਼ਠ ਤਦ ਦਿਵ੍ਯ ਕਾਂਤੀ ਨਾਲ ਚਮਕ ਉਠਿਆ। ਫਿਰ ਉਹ ਵਿਮਾਨ ‘ਤੇ ਚੜ੍ਹ ਕੇ, ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ ਸਵਰਗ ਨੂੰ ਪ੍ਰਸਥਾਨ ਕਰ ਗਿਆ।
Pulastya
Tirtha: Kulasaṃtāraṇa
Type: ghat
Listener: Yayāti
Scene: Pulastya narrates as the king’s body shines; the king steps onto a celestial vimāna surrounded by luminous beings and rises skyward from the tīrtha bank.
FAQs
The tīrtha’s merit can transform and elevate a person, culminating in auspicious posthumous destiny symbolized by ascent to Svarga.
The context continues the Kulasaṃtāraṇa-tīrtha Māhātmya within the Arbuda Khaṇḍa of the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa.
No direct ritual is stated in this verse; it narrates the फल (result)—ascent to heaven—following prior tīrtha-related merit.