Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 27
तस्योपवर्तनेप्येको न श्रुतो गोत्रभित्क्वचित् । स्वर्गे स्वर्गसदामीशो गोत्रभित्परिकीर्तितः
tasyopavartanepyeko na śruto gotrabhitkvacit | svarge svargasadāmīśo gotrabhitparikīrtitaḥ
في مملكته لا يُسمَع قطّ عن «غوترابهِت» واحد، أي مَن يخرق نظام السلالة؛ أمّا في السماء فإن سيّد مجلس أهل السماء يُشاد به باسم «غوترابهِت»، شاقّ الأنساب.
Skanda (deduced; Kāśīkhaṇḍa context typically Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśīkṣetra (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Audience of the Kāśī-māhātmya discourse (not explicit)
Scene: A moral-contrast scene: Kāśī’s orderly streets with disciplined householders and sages; juxtaposed with a small celestial vignette of Indra associated with the epithet Gotrabhit, suggesting deva-pramāda (heedlessness).
FAQs
A dharmic realm is marked by social and ethical stability—harm to lineage order and communal dharma is absent in sacred Kāśī under righteous rule.
Kāśī is praised as a land where dharma is naturally safeguarded, contrasted with even the famed order of Svarga.
No ritual is stated; the verse focuses on societal dharma (ācāra) as a sign of sacred kingship and holy land.