Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 57
सुवर्णग्राहिणौ येन कर्णौ स्यातां च सुश्रुती । मौंजीबंधोप्यभूदस्य व्यतीतेब्देऽष्टमे हरे । ब्रह्मचर्याभिवृद्ध्यै यो ब्रह्मग्रहणहेतुकः
suvarṇagrāhiṇau yena karṇau syātāṃ ca suśrutī | mauṃjībaṃdhopyabhūdasya vyatītebde'ṣṭame hare | brahmacaryābhivṛddhyai yo brahmagrahaṇahetukaḥ
بهذا الطقس تصير الأذنان أهلاً لحمل الذهب، ويغدو المرء «حسن السمع» أي حسن التلقّي والتعليم. ولأجله، يا هري، لما انقضت السنة الثامنة تمّ ربط حزام المُنْجَا المقدّس؛ وهو طقسٌ لزيادة البراهماتشاريا (العفّة الطلابية) وسببٌ لتلقّي البراهمن، أي التعلّم الفيدي.
Citragupta
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Hari (explicit vocative)
Scene: A solemn upanayana-adjacent moment: the boy receives the muñja girdle after the eighth year; a teacher figure stands ready with staff and sacred thread; the verse addresses ‘Hari’, elevating the rite into devotional discipline.
FAQs
Initiation into brahmacarya is portrayed as the gateway to disciplined life and sacred learning.
This verse does not name a tīrtha; it belongs to the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s broader Kāśī-centered dharma narrative.
Muñjībandha (sacred girdle tying), associated with upanayana and brahmacarya, is mentioned with an age marker (after the eighth year).