Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 44
दिनेदिने वर्धमानां तां पश्यन्मुमुदे भृशम् । क्षीरनीरधिवद्रम्यां निशि चांद्रमसीं कलाम्
dinedine vardhamānāṃ tāṃ paśyanmumude bhṛśam | kṣīranīradhivadramyāṃ niśi cāṃdramasīṃ kalām
La voyant grandir de jour en jour, il se réjouit grandement, tel celui qui, la nuit, contemple le lumineux croissant de la lune, charmant comme l’éclat des eaux blanches semblables au lait.
Skanda (deduced narrative voice in Kāśīkhaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: At night in the hermitage, the sage watches the maiden’s day-by-day growth with joy; the scene is bathed in moonlight, with a luminous ‘moon-digit’ and shimmering milk-white water imagery evoked poetically.
FAQs
Auspicious growth under dharmic care is celebrated; joy arises from nurturing what is sacred and entrusted.
No named tīrtha appears; the verse uses poetic imagery within the Kāśī-khaṇḍa narrative.
None; it is a descriptive, celebratory passage.