Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 6
शममेनो व्रजेदेवं बैजं गर्भजमवे च । स्त्रीणामेताः क्रियास्तूष्णीं पाणिग्राहस्तु मंत्रवान्
śamameno vrajedevaṃ baijaṃ garbhajamave ca | strīṇāmetāḥ kriyāstūṣṇīṃ pāṇigrāhastu maṃtravān
এইদৰে বীজজ আৰু গৰ্ভজ মল-দোষ শান্ত হৈ দূৰ হয়। স্ত্ৰীসকলৰ বাবে এই সংস্কাৰসমূহ নীৰৱে কৰা হয়, কিন্তু বিবাহত পাণিগ্ৰাহ (হাত গ্ৰহণ) মন্ত্রসহ কৰা হয়।
Skanda (contextual continuity)
Tirtha: Avimukta-Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: Symbolic purification: a priest performs saṃskāra rites as dark wisps (doṣas) dissolve; a parallel scene shows a wedding pāṇigraha with mantras, sacred fire, and the couple’s joined hands.
FAQs
Saṃskāras are portrayed as purificatory, reducing inherited and embodied impurities and establishing dharmic life-stages.
The instruction is part of Kāśī’s Kāśīkhaṇḍa teaching on dharma; no specific tirtha is named in this verse.
Women’s rites are indicated as performed silently, while the marriage hand-taking (pāṇigraha) is explicitly mantra-accompanied.