Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 85
ज्येष्ठे ज्येष्ठासु यो बालस्तत्र स्नानं समाचरेत् । न स पीडामवाप्नोति यावत्संवत्सरं द्विजाः
jyeṣṭhe jyeṣṭhāsu yo bālastatra snānaṃ samācaret | na sa pīḍāmavāpnoti yāvatsaṃvatsaraṃ dvijāḥ
اے دو بار جنم لینے والو! اگر جَیَیشٹھ کے مہینے میں، جَیَیشٹھا نَکشتر کے دنوں میں کوئی بچہ وہاں اشنان کرے تو وہ بچہ پورے ایک سال تک کسی تکلیف میں مبتلا نہیں ہوتا۔
Deductive (Sūta continuing the phalaśruti in Adhyāya 21)
Tirtha: Bālasakhya
Type: ghat
Listener: Dvijas/ṛṣis
Scene: A child is led to the ghat at dawn in Jyeṣṭha; priests/sages mark the auspicious nakṣatra; the water glows subtly as the snāna is performed with a protective sankalpa.
FAQs
Purāṇic dharma links sacred place and sacred time—properly timed tīrtha-snāna grants protection and well-being.
Bālasakhya-tīrtha (the ‘there’ refers to the tīrtha named in the preceding verse).
A child should bathe at the tīrtha during Jyeṣṭha month when Jyeṣṭhā nakṣatra is present, for year-long freedom from affliction.