Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 3
चन्द्रानुवृद्ध्या तद्वृद्धिः क्षयस्तत्संक्षये भवेत् । तस्मिन्पापयुगेऽप्येवं कदाचित्संप्रदृश्यते
candrānuvṛddhyā tadvṛddhiḥ kṣayastatsaṃkṣaye bhavet | tasminpāpayuge'pyevaṃ kadācitsaṃpradṛśyate
चंद्र वाढला की त्या (दिव्य प्रभावाची) वाढ होते, आणि चंद्र क्षीण झाला की त्याचा क्षय होतो. पापयुगातही कधी कधी हे रहस्य याच प्रकारे दिसून येते।
Unspecified in snippet (Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya dialogue context; likely a narrator addressing Devī)
Tirtha: Candrodaka
Type: kund
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Two panels: in śukla pakṣa the pond glows intensely; in kr̥ṣṇa pakṣa the glow fades. A crescent-to-full moon arc is shown above, with pilgrims observing the change in reverent silence.
FAQs
Sacred potency is portrayed as perceptible and rhythmic—aligned with cosmic order (the Moon’s phases), affirming tīrtha power even in degenerate times.
The surrounding passage belongs to Prabhāsa-kṣetra and leads into the glory of Candratīrtha/Candrodaka-tīrtha.
No direct ritual is prescribed in this verse; it sets a cosmological frame later applied to bathing and worship at the tīrtha.