Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 22
मृत्युकाले च संप्राप्ते हृदये यस्तु धारयेत् । चक्राकं पापदलनं स याति परमां गतिम्
mṛtyukāle ca saṃprāpte hṛdaye yastu dhārayet | cakrākaṃ pāpadalanaṃ sa yāti paramāṃ gatim
اور جب موت کا وقت آ پہنچے، جو اپنے دل میں گناہ کو چیر دینے والا چکر کا نشان دھارے، وہ اعلیٰ ترین منزل کو پہنچتا ہے۔
Skanda (deduced from Dvārakā-māhātmya narrative style within Skanda Purāṇa)
Tirtha: Dvārakā-kṣetra (cakra-cihna-aṅkita-pāṣāṇa worship)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Prahlāda’s grandson (as per 38.1) / assembled sages in the broader frame
Scene: A devotee at life’s end, calm and luminous, inwardly holding the radiant Sudarśana-cakra in the heart-lotus; attendants chant; the cakra’s light ‘crushes’ dark pāpa forms dissolving into radiance.
FAQs
Final remembrance anchored in the Lord’s sacred sign is held to determine the soul’s highest passage, emphasizing steady devotion.
Dvārakā’s Vaiṣṇava kṣetra-tradition, where the cakra-mark is treated as a liberating sacred presence.
Hṛdaya-dhāraṇā (inner retention/meditation) of the sin-destroying cakra-mark, especially at the time of death.