Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 56
तत्कुले नास्ति पापिष्ठो न च लोके यमस्य च । वायुलोकान्महीपाल न पुनर्विद्यते गतिः
tatkule nāsti pāpiṣṭho na ca loke yamasya ca | vāyulokānmahīpāla na punarvidyate gatiḥ
அக்குலத்தில் மிகப் பாவி எவரும் இல்லை; யமலோகத்திற்குச் செல்லுதலும் இல்லை. அரசே, வாயுலோகத்திலிருந்து மீண்டும் மானுடப் பிறவிக்குத் திரும்புதல் இல்லை.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced)
Tirtha: Dvārakā
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahīpāla/Rājendra (king, as addressed)
Scene: A king listens as a sage proclaims the fruit: a radiant upward path beyond Yama’s dark realm; a wind-swept luminous sphere (Vāyu-loka) appears as a threshold to non-return.
FAQs
Devotion generates protective merit for the entire lineage and leads toward higher, non-returning states.
Dvārakā, within the Kṛṣṇa-centered Māhātmya describing exalted posthumous destinies.
No new rite is stated here; it summarizes the salvific fruit of the previously described services to Kṛṣṇa.