Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 55
सर्वदा मिष्टमश्नाति कर्मणा येन भास्करे । न चूडाकरणं चास्य कृतमब्दे यथाकुलम्
sarvadā miṣṭamaśnāti karmaṇā yena bhāskare | na cūḍākaraṇaṃ cāsya kṛtamabde yathākulam
(That is the rite) by which one is blessed to eat sweet food always, O Bhāskara—yet his tonsure (cūḍākaraṇa) too was not performed in the proper year according to family custom.
Citragupta
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Bhāskara (explicit vocative in verse)
Scene: A barber’s tools and ritual items lie unused; the child’s hair remains unshorn. A narrator addresses ‘Bhāskara’ as witness, while sweets are present yet symbolically withheld—linking rite and promised sweetness.
FAQs
Dharma is lived through disciplined observance of rites aligned with family and śāstra.
No tīrtha is named in this verse; it remains part of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s ethical narrative.
Cūḍākaraṇa (tonsure) is referenced, to be performed at the proper age/year according to kula practice.