Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 9
अन्यापि मानुषी याऽत्र वाप्यां स्नात्वा समाहिता । पञ्चम्यां वत्सरं यावच्छुक्लपक्षे ह्युपस्थिते । पूजयिष्यति मल्लिंगं यच्चाद्य स्थापितं त्वया
anyāpi mānuṣī yā'tra vāpyāṃ snātvā samāhitā | pañcamyāṃ vatsaraṃ yāvacchuklapakṣe hyupasthite | pūjayiṣyati malliṃgaṃ yaccādya sthāpitaṃ tvayā
“สตรีอื่นใดก็ตาม ผู้ตั้งจิตแน่วแน่ลงอาบในสระศักดิ์สิทธิ์นี้ และในวันปัญจมีแห่งปักษ์สว่าง กระทำต่อเนื่องครบหนึ่งปี บูชามัลลิงคะซึ่งท่านได้สถาปนาไว้ ณ ที่นี้ในวันนี้—”
Śiva (Mahādeva)
Tirtha: मल्लिङ्ग-वापी
Type: kund
Listener: Vaṭikī (and by extension future pilgrims)
Scene: A woman performs ritual bathing in a stepped tank at dawn, then offers flowers, bilva leaves, and water to a freshly installed liṅga shrine; a calendar-like sense of repeated monthly observance is implied.
FAQs
Regular, time-bound worship (vrata) combined with tīrtha-bathing purifies intention and yields auspicious results.
A local tīrtha marked by a vāpī (tank) and the Malliṅga installed there; the text praises its ritual efficacy.
Bathe in the vāpī and worship the Malliṅga on pañcamī of the bright fortnight, maintaining the observance for one year.