Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 12
सर्व आराधयामासुः सर्वोपायैर्वरप्रदम् । चातुर्मास्ये च संपूर्णे सपूर्णे कार्तिकेऽमले
sarva ārādhayāmāsuḥ sarvopāyairvarapradam | cāturmāsye ca saṃpūrṇe sapūrṇe kārtike'male
সকলোয়ে সকলো উপায়েৰে বৰপ্ৰদ দেৱতাক আৰাধনা কৰিলে। আৰু চাতুৰ্মাস্য ব্ৰত সম্পূৰ্ণ হোৱাত—অৰ্থাৎ নিৰ্মল কাৰ্ত্তিক মাহ পূৰ্ণতালৈ আহোঁতে—তেওঁলোকৰ সাধনা সিদ্ধ হ’ল।
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa in Nāgarakhaṇḍa narrative style)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A montage-like scene: devas performing varied acts—japa, offerings, prostrations—across the four-month rainy season, culminating in a radiant full Kārtika setting with clear skies and sanctified lamps.
FAQs
Steady, many-formed devotion—especially through the full Cāturmāsya culminating in Kārtika—ripens worship into divine grace.
This verse sits within a Tīrthamāhātmya setting, but the specific tīrtha name is not stated in the shloka snippet itself.
Completion of Cāturmāsya observance and the sanctity of Kārtika are highlighted as the ritual time-frame for intensified worship.
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