Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 63
विवस्वाञ्ज्येष्ठमासे तु आषाढे चांशुमांस्तथा । पर्ज्जन्यः श्रावणे मासि वरुणः प्रौष्ठसंज्ञिके
vivasvāñjyeṣṭhamāse tu āṣāḍhe cāṃśumāṃstathā | parjjanyaḥ śrāvaṇe māsi varuṇaḥ prauṣṭhasaṃjñike
جَیَیشٹھ کے مہینے میں وِوَسوان حاکم ہے، اور آشاڑھ میں اسی طرح اَمشُمان۔ شراون میں بارش دینے والا پَرجنْیَ، اور پروشٹھ کہلانے والے مہینے میں وَرُن دیوتا مقرر ہے۔
Skanda (deduced)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: Four Ādityas appear as personified forces: Vivasvān with blazing summer aura (Jyeṣṭha), Aṃśumān with shimmering heat-haze (Āṣāḍha), Parjanya releasing monsoon clouds (Śrāvaṇa), Varuṇa enthroned with waters and nāgas (Prauṣṭha/Bhādrapada).
FAQs
Seasonal forces—heat, rays, rain, and waters—are sacralized as divine presences, teaching reverence for nature as dharma-governed.
The teaching belongs to Prabhāsa-kṣetra’s māhātmya, situating cosmic calendrics within pilgrimage literature.
No explicit ritual; the verse supplies month-deity correspondences useful for timed worship.