Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 58
पीतांबरधरो भूत्वा तथा गरुडवाहनः । वनमाली चतुर्बाहुर्दिव्यगन्धानुलेपनः । याति विष्ण्वालयं विप्रा अपुनर्भवलक्षणम्
pītāṃbaradharo bhūtvā tathā garuḍavāhanaḥ | vanamālī caturbāhurdivyagandhānulepanaḥ | yāti viṣṇvālayaṃ viprā apunarbhavalakṣaṇam
Kapag nagayakan na tulad ni Viṣṇu—nakasuot ng dilaw, nakasakay kay Garuḍa, may kuwintas na bulaklak ng gubat, may apat na bisig, pinahiran ng banal na pabango—O mga brāhmaṇa, siya’y tutungo sa tahanan ni Viṣṇu, na may tanda ng paglaya sa muling pagsilang.
Śrī Prahlāda (contextual attribution: Dvārakā Māhātmya narration)
Tirtha: Dvārakā (Gomatī tīrtha culmination)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Vipra addressed directly
Scene: A purified pilgrim is transfigured into a Vishnu-like form: yellow garments, four arms holding shankha-chakra-gada-padma, garlanded, fragrant; Garuḍa appears as the vehicle carrying the soul toward a radiant Vaikuṇṭha city.
FAQs
The tīrtha’s fruit is not merely worldly merit but Vaiṣṇava liberation—attainment of Viṣṇu’s realm and freedom from rebirth.
The Dvārakā sacred complex associated with the Gomātī (as established in the surrounding verses of Adhyāya 6).
No single rite is named here; it describes the resultant divine form and destination attained through the tīrtha’s sanctifying observances described in context.