Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 50
संन्यस्ताखिलकर्मापि पितुर्वंद्यो हिमस्करी । सर्ववंद्येन यतिना प्रसूर्वंद्या प्रयत्नतः
saṃnyastākhilakarmāpi piturvaṃdyo himaskarī | sarvavaṃdyena yatinā prasūrvaṃdyā prayatnataḥ
ولو أنها نبذت جميع الأعمال، تبقى الأم جديرةً بتوقير الأب؛ وبمزيد من الاجتهاد ينبغي أن تُبجَّل حتى من الزاهد الذي يكرّمه الجميع، لأنها هي عينُ مصدر مولده.
Nārada (continued discourse)
Tirtha: Kāśī (ethical mahatmya within the kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A revered ascetic (yati) with staff and waterpot bows to an elderly mother; the father also offers respectful salutation; the scene is set near a Kāśī courtyard with distant temple spires.
FAQs
Renunciation does not cancel gratitude; reverence to one’s mother remains obligatory even for the spiritually exalted.
No site; the verse glorifies the ‘living tīrtha’ principle—motherhood as sacred.
Vandanā (reverential honoring) of the mother, emphasized as a deliberate practice (prayatnataḥ).