Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 94
प्रतिपच्च द्वितीया च तृतीया च महेश्वरि । चतुर्थी पञ्चमी चैव अव्यया षोडशी कला
pratipacca dvitīyā ca tṛtīyā ca maheśvari | caturthī pañcamī caiva avyayā ṣoḍaśī kalā
اے مہیشوری، پرتیپت، دِوتییا اور ترتییا؛ اسی طرح چتُرتھی اور پنچمی—یہ تِتھیاں لازوال سولہویں کلا (شودشی کلا) کے ساتھ منسوب کہی گئی ہیں۔
Śiva (explicit vocative maheśvari indicates address to Devī)
Tirtha: Revā-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Maheśvarī addressed in this verse
Scene: A calendrical-lunar tableau: the first five tithis named in sequence, culminating in the notion of an imperishable sixteenth kalā hovering as a subtle, constant lunar essence.
FAQs
Time (tithi) is sacred and structured; lunar phases are treated as meaningful supports for dharmic observance.
No single site is singled out; the teaching is calendrical within the Revā-khaṇḍa context.
It frames specific tithis in relation to lunar kalās, implying their relevance for vrata/observance, though no single rite is commanded here.