Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 63
अद्यास्माकं विधिस्तुष्टो भगवान्मन्मथस्तथा । येन दीर्घा कृता रात्रिर्नाशं नीतश्च भास्करः
adyāsmākaṃ vidhistuṣṭo bhagavānmanmathastathā | yena dīrghā kṛtā rātrirnāśaṃ nītaśca bhāskaraḥ
Mereka berkata: “Hari ini takdir kami memihak, dan Dewa Manmatha pun berkenan; oleh-Nya malam dipanjangkan dan Sang Surya didorong lenyap.”
Adharmic revelers (the groups mentioned in the surrounding verses)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A group of revelers looking up at a star-filled sky, proclaiming Manmatha’s pleasure; the sun is absent beyond the horizon, suggesting eclipse-like darkness; subtle iconography of Manmatha (sugarcane bow, floral arrows) hovering as a symbolic presence.
FAQs
The Purāṇa shows how desire (kāma) can be wrongly celebrated when it eclipses disciplines tied to the Sun and ritual order.
The verse is embedded in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa tīrtha narrative; it does not itself identify the site.
None; it comments on the absence of sunrise, which implicitly disrupts daily rites.