Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 36
एवं तस्य निशावक्त्रे नित्यमेव स भूपतिः । आतिथ्यं प्रकरोत्येव समागत्य तथैव च
evaṃ tasya niśāvaktre nityameva sa bhūpatiḥ | ātithyaṃ prakarotyeva samāgatya tathaiva ca
अशा रीतीने रात्रि येताच तो राजा नित्य येऊन, पूर्वीप्रमाणेच आतिथ्य करीत असे।
Narrator (contextual; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa in Purāṇic narration)
Scene: A sequence-like scene: each night the same regal preta-king arrives, performs formal hospitality with measured gestures, as if following an unbreakable rule.
FAQs
Dharma, when practiced consistently, becomes a sustaining pattern; the repeated hospitality hints at a karmic or sacred law tied to the place.
Not identified in this verse; it remains within the Tīrthamāhātmya narrative frame.
No formal ritual; the repeated act is ātithya (welcoming and feeding a guest).