Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 43
आयांत्यूर्जे पंचनदे प्रातःप्रातर्ममांतिकम् । महाघौघप्रशमने महाश्रेयोविधायिनि
āyāṃtyūrje paṃcanade prātaḥprātarmamāṃtikam | mahāghaughapraśamane mahāśreyovidhāyini
ऊर्ज (कार्त्तिक) मास में पंचनद पर वे प्रातः-प्रातः मेरे समीप आते हैं—उस स्थान पर जो महापाप-प्रवाह को शांत करता और परम कल्याण प्रदान करता है।
Skanda
Tirtha: Pañcanada
Type: tirtha
Scene: At dawn in Kārttika, a river/ford named Pañcanada glows; personified tīrthas arrive each morning like a recurring procession, while the waters appear to wash away dark ‘sin-clouds’.
FAQs
Seasonal sacred time (like Kārttika) intensifies tīrtha power, making repeated morning observance a means to dissolve sin and gain highest welfare.
Pañcanada (mentioned as a powerful tīrtha associated with repeated morning approach to the speaker’s presence).
Regular morning practice—‘morning after morning’—implying repeated snāna/approach during Ūrja (Kārttika).