Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 9
चांद्रायणानि कृच्छ्राणि तया चीर्णान्यनेकशः । पाराकाणि यथोक्तानि तथा सांतपनानि च
cāṃdrāyaṇāni kṛcchrāṇi tayā cīrṇānyanekaśaḥ | pārākāṇi yathoktāni tathā sāṃtapanāni ca
അവൾ പലവട്ടം ചാന്ദ്രായണവും കൃച്ഛ്രവും അനുഷ്ഠിച്ചു; ശാസ്ത്രവിധിപ്രകാരം പാരാകവും സാന്തപനവും എന്ന പ്രായശ്ചിത്തങ്ങളും ചെയ്തു।
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator within Nāgarakhaṇḍa; exact speaker not explicit in snippet)
Type: kshetra
Scene: The maiden performs successive penances: moon-cycle fasting (Cāndrāyaṇa), austere Kṛcchra, prolonged Pārāka, and Sāṃtapana—shown through changing lunar phases and her steady posture near a sacred fire and water pot.
FAQs
Purity and spiritual power are cultivated through disciplined vratas and prāyaścitta performed according to injunction.
This verse focuses on vows and expiations; the tīrtha setting is part of the chapter’s larger Tīrthamāhātmya context but not named here.
Named prāyaścittas include Cāndrāyaṇa, Kṛcchra, Pārāka, and Sāṃtapana—classical expiatory austerities involving regulated fasting and restraint.