Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 51
उपवासो बलाज्जातः सस्याभावादसंशयम् । अस्माकं जागरं चापि भविष्यति बुभुक्षया
upavāso balājjātaḥ sasyābhāvādasaṃśayam | asmākaṃ jāgaraṃ cāpi bhaviṣyati bubhukṣayā
ការតមអាហារបានមកលើពួកយើងដោយបង្ខំ មិនសង្ស័យទេ ព្រោះគ្មានស្រូវអង្ករ។ ហើយការយាមរាត្រីរបស់ពួកយើងក៏នឹងកើតឡើង ដោយសារភាពឃ្លានផ្ទាល់។
The wife (continuing her counsel)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Night scene: the couple sits awake beside a dim lamp, empty grain basket nearby; their wakefulness resembles a vigil, with a distant temple bell or river shimmer implied.
FAQs
Suffering can be alchemized into sādhanā: even forced deprivation can be offered as a conscious vrata of fasting and vigil.
Not named in the verse; it supports the larger Mahākāla-centered tīrtha-māhātmya narrative.
Upavāsa (fasting) and jāgara (night vigil), here framed as naturally arising due to scarcity but directed toward religious purpose.
Read Skanda Purana in the Vedapath app
Scan the QR code to open this directly in the app, with audio, word-by-word meanings, and more.