Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 64
नक्तं समाचरेत्पोष्यैः सार्धं सुप्रीतमानसः । प्रातश्चतुर्थ्यां संभोज्य चतुरश्च कुमारकान्
naktaṃ samācaretpoṣyaiḥ sārdhaṃ suprītamānasaḥ | prātaścaturthyāṃ saṃbhojya caturaśca kumārakān
La nuit, l’esprit joyeux, on doit accomplir le rite avec ceux qui sont sous sa protection. Puis, au matin du quatrième tithi, on doit nourrir quatre jeunes garçons.
Skanda (deduced, Kāśīkhaṇḍa context) to Agastya
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (vrata setting)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and Naimiṣāraṇya sages (frame implied)
Scene: Nighttime household/pilgrim camp in Kāśī with lamps; the observant person maintains the rite with family/dependents; at dawn of caturthī, four young boys are seated and served a sanctified meal.
FAQs
Vows should expand into care and nourishment of others; feeding the young becomes an embodied form of worship and merit.
The instruction is situated in the Kāśī-khaṇḍa milieu; the verse itself is a vrata procedure rather than a tīrtha-stuti.
Night observance (nakta) with dependents, followed by feeding four boys on the morning of Caturthī.