Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 18
एको धर्मप्रदो विष्णुस्त्वेको बह्वर्थदो हरिः । एकः कामप्रदश्चक्री त्वेको मोक्षप्रदोच्युतः
eko dharmaprado viṣṇustveko bahvarthado hariḥ | ekaḥ kāmapradaścakrī tveko mokṣapradocyutaḥ
Si Viṣṇu lamang ang nagbibigay ng dharma; si Hari lamang ang nagbibigay ng saganang kasaganaan. Ang Panginoong may hawak ng cakra lamang ang nagbibigay ng mga ninanais; at si Acyuta lamang ang sinasabing nagbibigay ng mokṣa, ang kalayaan.
Vyāsa (deduced from immediate narrative context in the same adhyāya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Naimiṣāraṇya sages
Scene: A didactic tableau: Viṣṇu standing in fourfold radiance, each hand/attribute symbolically linked to dharma, artha, kāma, mokṣa; sages in attentive posture in a forest-āśrama setting, with a distant suggestion of Kāśī’s ghāṭs as sacred backdrop.
FAQs
All four aims of life (dharma, artha, kāma, mokṣa) are unified in the grace of Viṣṇu—encouraging integrated devotion rather than fragmented seeking.
The verse belongs to the Kāśī-khaṇḍa milieu but does not directly name a Kashi shrine or tirtha.
No explicit rite; it functions as a doctrinal mapping of puruṣārthas to devotion toward Viṣṇu.