Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 44
दिनेदिने वर्धमानां तां पश्यन्मुमुदे भृशम् । क्षीरनीरधिवद्रम्यां निशि चांद्रमसीं कलाम्
dinedine vardhamānāṃ tāṃ paśyanmumude bhṛśam | kṣīranīradhivadramyāṃ niśi cāṃdramasīṃ kalām
അവൾ ദിനംപ്രതി വളരുന്നതു കണ്ടു മുനി അത്യന്തം ആനന്ദിച്ചു—രാത്രിയിൽ ക്ഷീരനീരത്തെപ്പോലെ പ്രകാശമുള്ള, മനോഹരമായ ചന്ദ്രകല കാണുന്നതുപോലെ।
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.