Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 57
वासुदेवे रतिर्नास्ति यत्र नास्ति सदा हरिः । जपहोमादिकं नास्ति भस्म नास्ति गृहे नृणाम्
vāsudeve ratirnāsti yatra nāsti sadā hariḥ | japahomādikaṃ nāsti bhasma nāsti gṛhe nṛṇām
جن لوگوں کے گھروں میں واسودیو سے محبت نہیں، جہاں سدا ہری کا سمرن نہیں، جہاں جپ، ہوم اور ایسے اعمال نہیں، اور جہاں گھر میں مقدس بھسم بھی موجود نہیں—
Skanda (deduced; concluding/continuing the criteria of spiritually barren homes in Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A dim household interior: no lamp at the shrine, no tulasī or śālagrāma, no sacred ash vessel; the atmosphere feels spiritually vacant as the narrator warns of dharma’s absence.
FAQs
A home without devotion and daily sacred practice becomes spiritually empty; remembrance of Hari/Vāsudeva and disciplined worship sustain auspiciousness.
Prabhāsakṣetra; its māhātmya integrates both Śaiva markers (bhasma) and broader bhakti (Hari/Vāsudeva) as signs of dharmic life.
Japa and homa are explicitly named; keeping bhasma (sacred ash) is also mentioned as a household religious marker.