Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 68
यो वै जगदधिष्ठाता सोधिष्ठातात्र सर्वगः । सर्वदृक्सर्वदः शर्वः कथं न ज्ञायते विभो
yo vai jagadadhiṣṭhātā sodhiṣṭhātātra sarvagaḥ | sarvadṛksarvadaḥ śarvaḥ kathaṃ na jñāyate vibho
যি জগতৰ অধিষ্ঠাতা, সেয়াই ইয়াতো অধিষ্ঠাতা, সৰ্বব্যাপী। সৰ্বদৰ্শী, সৰ্বদাতা শৰ্ব—হে বিভো, তেওঁক কেনেকৈ নাজানিব?
Kārpaṭika
Tirtha: Viśveśvara in Kāśī (implied)
Type: temple
Listener: Rājendra
Scene: A rhetorical, devotional assertion: Śarva is the universal presider and also presides here; the speaker challenges the listener’s lack of recognition.
FAQs
Recognize Śiva as the universal and local presiding divinity; spiritual blindness is failing to see the ever-present Lord.
Kāśī, as the seat where the universal Lord is explicitly present as the adhiṣṭhātā (Viśveśvara/Śarva).
None explicitly; the verse emphasizes jñāna (recognition) and devotion.