Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 32
चतुर्दिनानि सा प्राज्ञैः पापस्य महतो महात् । चतुर्थं तु ततो भागं विभज्य परमेश्वरः
caturdināni sā prājñaiḥ pāpasya mahato mahāt | caturthaṃ tu tato bhāgaṃ vibhajya parameśvaraḥ
Pendant quatre jours, disent les sages, elle porte cette grande part du grand péché. Puis le Seigneur Suprême la partagea et attribua aussi la quatrième part.
Narrator
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā)
Type: river
Scene: Parameśvara is depicted as dividing a symbolic ‘share’ (bhāga) of darkness/red smoke (pāpa) into four portions, with a calendrical four-day motif (four lamps or four lotuses) indicating the time span.
FAQs
Dharma regulates even heavy cosmic burdens through time-bound observances, turning disorder into a structured, livable moral cosmos.
None explicitly; it remains within the Revā Khaṇḍa’s dharmic-etiological narration.
A four-day period is indicated in connection with the rajasvalā state, framed as a time-bound bearing of a share of doṣa.