Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 2
भुक्तो वा यदि वाऽभुक्तः स्वच्छो वाऽस्वच्छ एव वा । विमुक्तिः कथिता तत्र हरिजागरणान्नृणाम्
bhukto vā yadi vā'bhuktaḥ svaccho vā'svaccha eva vā | vimuktiḥ kathitā tatra harijāgaraṇānnṛṇām
மனிதன் உண்டிருந்தாலும் உண்ணாவிட்டாலும், தூயவனாக இருந்தாலும் தூய்மையற்றவனாக இருந்தாலும்—அங்கே ஹரி (விஷ்ணு) ஜாகரணத்தால் மக்களுக்கு விடுதலை கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது.
Skanda (deduced from Dvārakā Māhātmya didactic style within Skanda Purāṇa)
Tirtha: Dvārakā
Type: kshetra
Listener: nareśvara (king)
Scene: A mixed crowd—fasting and non-fasting, simple and unadorned—keeps vigil together before Hari; the deity’s radiance washes away notions of impurity; a symbolic gate to liberation opens behind the shrine.
FAQs
Devotional vigil for Hari is upheld as a direct cause of liberation, transcending ordinary concerns of ritual purity.
Dvārakā, praised within the Dvārakā Māhātmya of the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa.
Hari-jāgaraṇa—keeping awake in devotion to Viṣṇu (often with kīrtana, listening to kathā, and worship).