Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 25
अन्यैव काचित्सा सृष्टिर्विधातुर्याऽतिरेकिणी । न तत्क्षेत्रगुणान्वक्तुमीश्वरोऽपीश्वरो यतः
anyaiva kācitsā sṛṣṭirvidhāturyā'tirekiṇī | na tatkṣetraguṇānvaktumīśvaro'pīśvaro yataḥ
تلك (كاشي) خَلْقٌ من مرتبةٍ أخرى، يفوق حتى صُنْع الخالق؛ إذ لا تُستوفى أوصاف فضائل هذا الكشيترا، لأن شيفا، ربّ الأرباب، هو مصدرها وسلطانها القائم عليها.
Skanda (deduced, Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)
Tirtha: Kāśī / Avimukta-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A cosmic vision of Kāśī as a luminous kṣetra emanating from Śiva: the city floating like a mandala above the Gaṅgā, with Viśveśvara’s liṅga at the center and sages unable to finish praising it.
FAQs
Kāśī’s holiness is depicted as transcendent and ultimately beyond complete description, grounded in Śiva’s supremacy.
Kāśī/Avimukta, praised as a uniquely divine kṣetra.
None; this is a theological exaltation of the kṣetra’s incomparable nature.