Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 19
पर्वमैथुन कृन्मेही परित्यज्य स्वगेहिनीम् । वेश्यादिरक्तो मूढात्मा खल्वाटो जायते नरः
parvamaithuna kṛnmehī parityajya svagehinīm | veśyādirakto mūḍhātmā khalvāṭo jāyate naraḥ
A man who indulges in intercourse on forbidden occasions becomes afflicted with urinary or sexual ailments. Abandoning his own wife and becoming attached to prostitutes and the like, that deluded man is born bald.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) to the sages (deduced from Māheśvarakhaṇḍa context)
Scene: A moral tableau: a man turning away from his wife toward a courtesan’s doorway; in the background, a calendar-like motif marking forbidden parva days; the consequence shown symbolically as fading hair/illness aura.
FAQs
Restraint and fidelity stabilize dharma; indulgence and betrayal in sexuality return as disease and social-spiritual diminishment.
No tīrtha is mentioned in this verse.
No explicit ritual; it implies observance of parva-discipline and marital dharma.