Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 6
स्कंद उवाच । प्रश्नभारोयमतुलस्त्वया यः समुदाहृतः । कुंभयोनेऽमुमेवार्थमप्राक्षीदंबिका हरम्
skaṃda uvāca | praśnabhāroyamatulastvayā yaḥ samudāhṛtaḥ | kuṃbhayone'mumevārthamaprākṣīdaṃbikā haram
স্কন্দে ক’লে: হে কুম্ভযোনি, তুমি যি প্ৰশ্নসমূহ উত্থাপন কৰিলা, তাৰ ভাৰ সঁচাকৈ অতুলনীয়। এই একে বিষয়েই অম্বিকাই একদা হৰক সুধিছিল।
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī/Avimukta (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Kumbhayoni (Agastya)
Scene: Skanda begins: he acknowledges the incomparable weight of the questions and reveals that Ambikā once asked Hara the same—setting a nested divine dialogue as the source of the coming account.
FAQs
Kāśī’s greatness is validated through a divine precedent: the same inquiry was made by Pārvatī to Śiva, establishing authoritative transmission.
Implicitly Avimukta/Kāśī, as the forthcoming topic of Ambikā’s question to Śiva.
None; it sets the narrative authority and lineage of the teaching.