Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 48
एवं प्रतिज्ञासंयुक्ते निशानाथे तदांबिके । सर्वा रूपेण संयुक्तास्तस्य कन्या निवेदिताः
evaṃ pratijñāsaṃyukte niśānāthe tadāṃbike | sarvā rūpeṇa saṃyuktāstasya kanyā niveditāḥ
এইদৰে, হে অম্বিকে মাতৃ, নিশানাথ চন্দ্ৰ যেতিয়া প্ৰতিজ্ঞাৰে আবদ্ধ হ’ল, তেতিয়া সেই সকলো কন্যা পুনৰ ৰূপ-লাবণ্য আৰু তেজেৰে সংযুক্ত হৈ তেওঁৰ আগত নিবেদিত হ’ল।
Narrator (addressing Ambikā / Devī as listener)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Somnātha region)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī/Umā (addressed as Ambikā/Devi)
Scene: The Moon-god, constrained by a solemn promise, receives the assembled maidens again radiant—an aura of restored beauty surrounding them, with a divine courtly stillness.
FAQs
When a wrongdoer accepts dharma and keeps a vow, harmony returns and lost ‘splendor’ (śrī/rūpa) is restored.
The account belongs to Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya, praising Prabhāsa by weaving moral restoration into its sacred narrative landscape.
No explicit ritual; the emphasized prescription is fidelity to one’s promise (pratijñā) as a dharmic act.