Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 40
दुग्धाहारपरो यस्तु चातुर्मास्येऽभिजायते । तस्य पापसहस्राणि विलयं यांति देहिनः
dugdhāhāraparo yastu cāturmāsye'bhijāyate | tasya pāpasahasrāṇi vilayaṃ yāṃti dehinaḥ
चातुर्मास्ये यः दुग्धाहारपरः भवति, तस्य देहिनः पापसहस्राणि विलयं यान्ति, नश्यन्ति च।
Skanda (deduced from Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya narrative style)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A devotee in monsoon season performs Cāturmāsya restraint, offering a simple milk vessel before a Viṣṇu shrine; rain clouds, tulasī, and lamp-light suggest disciplined devotion.
FAQs
Regulated, sattvic diet in sacred months is treated as a potent purifier, dissolving accumulated sin.
The focus is the sacred season (Cāturmāsya) and its observance; no specific tirtha is named in the verse.
Adopt dugdhāhāra—subsisting chiefly on milk—during Cāturmāsya for purification.
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