Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 67
तव कामाः समृद्धाः स्युरानुसूयेय तापस । ज्ञानं ते परमं भावि महामोहविनाशनम्
tava kāmāḥ samṛddhāḥ syurānusūyeya tāpasa | jñānaṃ te paramaṃ bhāvi mahāmohavināśanam
হে অনসূয়াৰ পুত্ৰ তাপস, তোমাৰ কামনা সমৃদ্ধ হৌক। আৰু তোমাৰ ভিতৰত পৰম জ্ঞান উদ্ভৱ হওক—যি মহামোহ বিনাশ কৰে।
Śiva
Tirtha: Kāśī (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Anasūyā’s son (tāpasa)
Scene: Śiva bestows a blessing on the ascetic son of Anasūyā; one hand grants worldly fulfillment, another radiates a flame-like light of knowledge dissolving a dark cloud labeled 'moha'.
FAQs
Devotion expressed through praising Kāśī culminates in Śiva’s grace: fulfillment and liberating knowledge that ends delusion.
Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), whose praise leads to Śiva’s boon of jñāna.
No new rite is stated here; it concludes with Śiva’s blessing resulting from Kāśī-stavana.