Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 45
एकः कन्यासहस्रं तु प्रदद्याच्च यथाविधि । पश्यत्यन्यो हृषीकेशं चातुर्मास्यं समाहितः
ekaḥ kanyāsahasraṃ tu pradadyācca yathāvidhi | paśyatyanyo hṛṣīkeśaṃ cāturmāsyaṃ samāhitaḥ
May isang, ayon sa wastong ritwal, na nagkakaloob ng isang libong dalaga bilang kaloob; may isa pa, payapa at nakatuon, na namamasdan si Hṛṣīkeśa sa buong Cāturmāsya.
Unnamed Purāṇic narrator (contextual speaker within Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Hṛṣīkeśa-darśana during Cāturmāsya
Type: kshetra
Scene: A contrast tableau: on one side a grand dāna ceremony with attendants and ritual vessels; on the other a quiet devotee, seated with folded hands, gazing at Hṛṣīkeśa’s icon during the rainy-season vow, with monsoon clouds and temple lamps.
FAQs
Even extraordinary, hyperbolic acts of giving are rhetorically outshone by sustained, concentrated devotion at the Lord’s presence.
Hṛṣīkeśa, whose Cāturmāsya darśana is praised as supremely meritorious.
Cāturmāsya observance with steady, repeated darśana of Hṛṣīkeśa; the verse contrasts it with yathāvidhi mahā-dāna.