Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 10
यदैव दृश्यते तत्र नदी चित्रपथा प्रिये । प्रमाणं दर्शनं तस्या न कालस्तत्र कारणम्
yadaiva dṛśyate tatra nadī citrapathā priye | pramāṇaṃ darśanaṃ tasyā na kālastatra kāraṇam
ಪ್ರಿಯೆ! ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವಾಗಲಾದರೂ ಚಿತ್ರಪಥಾ ನದಿ ಕಾಣಿಸಿದರೆ, ಆ ದರ್ಶನವೇ ಪ್ರಮಾಣ; ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಲವೇ ಕಾರಣವಲ್ಲ.
Skanda (deduced)
Tirtha: Citrāpathā-nadī
Type: ghat
Listener: priye (beloved interlocutor)
Scene: The river Citrāpathā appears as a radiant ribbon; a devotee beholds it, and the composition emphasizes ‘seeing’—eyes uplifted, hands folded—while a caption-like gesture indicates ‘kāla is not the cause’.
FAQs
Divine grace is not bound by calendrical calculations; direct encounter (darśana) with a sacred manifestation is itself transformative.
The Citrāpathā river-tīrtha in Prabhāsa Kṣetra.
Seek the river when it appears; its darśana itself is affirmed as the validating condition, rather than auspicious timing.
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