Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 39
उपोष्यैकादशीं यस्तु त्रयोदश्यां तु पारणम् । करोति तस्य नश्येत्तु द्वादश दद्वादशीफलम्
upoṣyaikādaśīṃ yastu trayodaśyāṃ tu pāraṇam | karoti tasya naśyettu dvādaśa dadvādaśīphalam
जो एकादशीचा उपवास करून त्रयोदशीला पारणे करतो, त्याचे द्वादशीचे फळ नष्ट होते; द्वादशीचे पुण्य हरपते।
Skanda (deduced)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A devotee who fasted on Ekādaśī stands before a small Viṣṇu/Śiva shrine at Prabhāsa, hesitating as Dvādaśī passes; the next panel shows Trayodaśī sunrise with a dimmed aura, symbolizing lost phala; a priest gestures urgently toward the correct pāraṇa time.
FAQs
Observances are completed by correct conclusion; right pāraṇa timing safeguards the vow’s merit.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, in whose māhātmya correct vrata-vidhi is taught.
After fasting on Ekādaśī, one should not perform pāraṇa on Trayodaśī; doing so destroys the Dvādaśī-related merit.