Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 42
तस्मात्सर्वप्रयत्नेन पूजयेत्तु विधानतः । यस्तत्र चतुरो मासन्सम्यग्व्रतपरायणः । अभ्यर्चयेद्धृषीकेशं न स भूयोऽभिजायते
tasmātsarvaprayatnena pūjayettu vidhānataḥ | yastatra caturo māsansamyagvrataparāyaṇaḥ | abhyarcayeddhṛṣīkeśaṃ na sa bhūyo'bhijāyate
اس لیے پوری کوشش سے شاستری وِدھی کے مطابق اسی کی پوجا کرنی چاہیے۔ جو وہاں چار ماہ تک درست ورتوں میں لگن کے ساتھ ہریشیکیش کی یَتھا وِدھی اَرچنا کرے، وہ پھر دوبارہ جنم نہیں لیتا۔
Unnamed Purāṇic narrator (contextual speaker within Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Hṛṣīkeśa (Arbuda)
Type: kshetra
Listener: a king (nṛpa-sattama)
Scene: A devotee observes the four-month vow—simple food, prayer beads, daily lamp—before Hṛṣīkeśa; the cycle of rebirth is depicted as a wheel fading away behind the sanctum.
FAQs
Sustained vow-observance and rule-based worship, anchored in a sacred place, is presented as liberating (ending rebirth).
The “there” refers to the Hṛṣīkeśa sacred locale within the Arbuda Khaṇḍa narrative.
Worship according to injunctions, and a four-month (cāturmāsya) vrata culminating in Hṛṣīkeśa-arcana.