त्वक्केशांगुलिदशनाः पर्वाण्यंगुलिजान्यपि । तथास्य पंचसूक्ष्माणि दिक्पालपदभाग्यथा
tvakkeśāṃgulidaśanāḥ parvāṇyaṃgulijānyapi | tathāsya paṃcasūkṣmāṇi dikpālapadabhāgyathā
جلده وشَعره وأصابعه وأسنانُه، بل وحتى مفاصلُ الأصابع، دقيقةٌ لطيفة؛ وهكذا يملك الخمس «السمات الدقيقة»، اللائقة بحظّ من ينال منزلة حارس الجهات.
Skanda (deduced for Kāśīkhaṇḍa context) narrating to Agastya
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Close, delicate depiction of the child’s fine skin, hair, fingers, teeth, and finger-joints; the sage compares these ‘subtle’ marks to the fortune of attaining a guardian’s station; faint symbolic presence of the eight dikpālas around the scene.
Auspicious refinement is associated with elevated duty; subtlety and discipline are signs of fitness for protecting order.
The Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s sacred geography is Kāśī, but this verse does not name a particular tirtha.
No ritual is prescribed; it continues the descriptive assessment of auspicious characteristics.