Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 17
स्कंद उवाच । ओंनमो गंगादेव्यै । ओंकाररूपिण्यजराऽतुलाऽनमताऽमृतस्रवा । अत्युदाराऽभयाऽशोकाऽलकनंदाऽमृताऽमला
skaṃda uvāca | oṃnamo gaṃgādevyai | oṃkārarūpiṇyajarā'tulā'namatā'mṛtasravā | atyudārā'bhayā'śokā'lakanaṃdā'mṛtā'malā
قال سكَندا: سلامٌ وتحيةٌ للإلهة غَنْغا. هي التي صورتُها عينُ «أوم»؛ التي لا تشيخ ولا نظير لها؛ سيلُ الأمْرِتَا لمن ينحني بخشوع. الكريمةُ جدًّا، واهبةُ الأمان وزوالِ الحزن—ألاكانندا، الخالدةُ الطاهرةُ التي لا دنسَ فيها.
Skanda
Tirtha: Gaṅgā (Kāśī-sannidhāna)
Type: ghat
Scene: Skanda as narrator offers a luminous hymn to Gaṅgā; the river appears as a radiant goddess arising from Oṁ, flowing past Kāśī’s ghāṭas with a nectar-like shimmer, granting fearlessness and removing sorrow.
FAQs
Reverent surrender to Gaṅgā is portrayed as a direct encounter with purity and nectar-like grace—fear and sorrow are dispelled through devotion.
Gaṅgā in the Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) sacred landscape—praised as the purifying, nectar-flowing divine river central to Kāśī-māhātmya.
No explicit rite is commanded here; the verse emphasizes namaskāra (bowing/salutation) to Gaṅgā as a devotional act.