Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 89
एवं सर्वासु तिथिषु क्रमस्नायी नरोत्तमः । आशुक्लपक्षदशमि प्रतिजन्माघमुत्सृजेत्
evaṃ sarvāsu tithiṣu kramasnāyī narottamaḥ | āśuklapakṣadaśami pratijanmāghamutsṛjet
Thus, on all the lunar days, the best of men who bathes in due sequence casts off the sin of each birth—up to the tenth day of the bright fortnight.
Skanda
Type: kshetra
Scene: A montage-like procession of a pilgrim bathing day after day at different Kāśī waters, with a lunar calendar strip marking tithis from Pratipadā to Daśamī; the pilgrim’s aura becomes progressively brighter.
FAQs
Steady, disciplined practice (regular bathing aligned with tithis) is praised as a dharmic method to steadily uproot karmic impurity.
The verse continues the Kāśī tīrtha-bathing framework centered around Daśāśvamedha/Rudra-related waters.
Kramasnāna—bathing in a prescribed sequence across the tithis up to Śukla Daśamī.