Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 1
श्रीप्रह्लाद उवाच । स्वनामांकित पत्रैस्तु श्रीपतिं योऽर्चयेत वै । सप्तलोकाननुप्राप्य सप्तद्वीपाधिपो भवेत्
śrīprahlāda uvāca | svanāmāṃkita patraistu śrīpatiṃ yo'rcayeta vai | saptalokānanuprāpya saptadvīpādhipo bhavet
श्रीप्रह्लाद उवाच—स्वनामाङ्कितपत्रैः श्रीपतिं योऽर्चयेत्, स सप्तलोकान् प्राप्य सप्तद्वीपाधिपो भवेत्।
Śrī Prahlāda
Tirtha: Dvārakā (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: (Implied) pilgrims/devotees within the narration
Scene: Prahlāda, serene and radiant, instructs devotees; a worshipper offers green leaves each inscribed with their own name to Śrīpati’s image; above, a cosmological vision of seven lokas and seven dvīpas appears like concentric realms.
FAQs
Simple offerings made with personal devotion (one’s name offered through leaves) are presented as highly efficacious in Viṣṇu worship.
The discourse occurs within Dvārakā Māhātmya, tying the practice to Dvārakā’s Vaiṣṇava devotional framework.
Arcana (worship) of Śrīpati using leaves (patra) inscribed with the worshipper’s name.