Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 63
अथवा कारणापेक्षस्त्र्यक्षस्त्वितरदेववत् । रंकमप्यनुगृह्णाति केवलं कारणं कृपा
athavā kāraṇāpekṣastryakṣastvitaradevavat | raṃkamapyanugṛhṇāti kevalaṃ kāraṇaṃ kṛpā
أو لعلّه—كغيره من الآلهة الذين يطلبون ذريعة—أنّ الربّ ذا العيون الثلاث قد يفيض فضله حتى على فقيرٍ معدم. فالسبب الحقّ الوحيد هو الرحمة نفسها.
Tvaṣṭṛ’s son (tvāṣṭraḥ)
Tirtha: Kāśī / Viśveśvara-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: sages
Scene: A contemplative figure seated on a ghat step, looking at the Ganga, reflecting on the three-eyed Lord’s compassion that reaches even the destitute; faint vision of Śiva’s third eye in the sky.
FAQs
Śiva’s anugraha ultimately rests on compassion, not on status; even the lowly can be uplifted.
The verse sits within Kāśī Khaṇḍa’s praise of Śiva’s grace, implicitly tied to Viśveśvara’s Kāśī.
None; the teaching is doctrinal—kṛpā is the decisive ‘cause’ of blessing.