Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 45
दिवाविहितशौचाच्च रात्रावर्द्धं समाचरेत् । परग्रामे तदर्धं च पथि तस्यार्धमेव च
divāvihitaśaucācca rātrāvarddhaṃ samācaret | paragrāme tadardhaṃ ca pathi tasyārdhameva ca
दिवसा विहित शौच रात्रौ अर्धेच करावे। परग्रामात त्याचेही अर्ध, आणि मार्गी त्याचेही अर्धच करावे।
Anonymous Purāṇic narrator (Dharmāraṇya instructional passage; speaker not explicit in the excerpt)
Scene: A traveler at dusk performs reduced purification by a roadside, then again in a foreign village courtyard—showing graded practice by setting (night, paragrāma, patha).
FAQs
Dharma is practical: standards of purification are adapted to time and circumstance without abandoning cleanliness.
No tīrtha is mentioned; the verse addresses travel circumstances generally.
Perform half the daytime śauca at night; in another village do half of that; on the road do half again.