Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 6
कृष्णाः कृष्णेतरा या वै तिथयस्ताश्च सारिकाः । द्विपंचदशमासे यास्त्वक्षयुग्मं तथायने
kṛṣṇāḥ kṛṣṇetarā yā vai tithayastāśca sārikāḥ | dvipaṃcadaśamāse yāstvakṣayugmaṃ tathāyane
黑半月与白半月的诸月日（tithi）即为棋子。那一对骰子对应于一月的两半，也同样对应于太阳两种至点行程（ayana）。
Nārada
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis (e.g., Śaunaka-led assembly)
Scene: A cosmic board-game motif: lunar fortnights as pieces, month-halves as dice, and the sun’s north/south courses as the larger arc; Śiva and Devī preside as serene players while Kāśī’s ghāṭs and the Gaṅgā appear as the earthly reflection of cosmic time.
FAQs
Even the smallest measures of time (tithis) participate in sacred order; time itself is a divine instrument within cosmic play.
No single tīrtha is named; the verse sacralizes calendrical time within the Kailāsa narrative frame.
None explicitly, though the calendrical mapping implicitly supports vrata-timing by tithi and ayana.