Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 46
चंद्रेश्वरे कृतं सर्वं तदानंत्याय जायते । अन्यच्च ते प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु गुह्यं कलानिधे
caṃdreśvare kṛtaṃ sarvaṃ tadānaṃtyāya jāyate | anyacca te pravakṣyāmi śṛṇu guhyaṃ kalānidhe
كلّ ما يُفعل لقندريشفرا (Candreśvara) يصير مصدرَ ثوابٍ لا نهاية له. وسأخبرك أيضًا بأمرٍ آخر—فاصغِ إلى هذا السرّ، يا سوما، يا كنزَ الأشعّة.
Śiva (Maheśāna)
Tirtha: Candreśvara (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Soma (Candra)
Scene: A teacher-figure addressing Soma: Candreśvara liṅga glowing in the sanctum, a scroll-like aura suggesting ‘secret teaching’; devotees offering lamps and flowers, the sense of limitless merit radiating outward.
FAQs
Service to the deity in a famed Kāśī shrine yields inexhaustible spiritual fruit.
Candreśvara-liṅga in Kāśī, explicitly praised for granting ‘endless’ merit.
No single rite is newly prescribed; the verse generalizes that all acts done for Candreśvara become ananta-phala.