Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 76
दशम्यामवहारोऽभूद्रात्रौ युद्धं तु रक्षसाम् । एकादश्यां तु रामाय रथो मातलिसारथिः
daśamyāmavahāro'bhūdrātrau yuddhaṃ tu rakṣasām | ekādaśyāṃ tu rāmāya ratho mātalisārathiḥ
في اليوم العاشر وقع الانسحاب؛ وفي الليل كان قتال مع الراكشاسا. وفي اليوم الحادي عشر، جاء لراما مركبٌ حربيٌّ وماتالي سائقه.
Unnamed Purāṇic narrator (contextual narrator within Brāhma Khaṇḍa)
Scene: Daśamī shows a brief withdrawal and regrouping; night battle flickers with torches; on ekādaśī a radiant celestial chariot descends with Mātali as charioteer, approaching Rāma amid astonished armies.
FAQs
When dharma is upheld, timely divine support arrives; endurance through uncertainty is part of righteous struggle.
No tīrtha is named; the emphasis is on time-markers (tithis) and divine intervention in the narrative.
None directly, though Ekādaśī is mentioned as a date (often sacred for vrata in broader tradition).