Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 26
काश्यां पादोदके तीर्थे यैः कृता नोदकक्रियाः । जन्मैव विफलं तेषां जलबुद्बुद सश्रियाम्
kāśyāṃ pādodake tīrthe yaiḥ kṛtā nodakakriyāḥ | janmaiva viphalaṃ teṣāṃ jalabudbuda saśriyām
কাশীত পাদোদক তীৰ্থত যিসকলে উদক-ক্ৰিয়া নকৰে—জলবুদবুদৰ দৰে ক্ষণস্থায়ী শ্ৰী-সমৃদ্ধি থাকিলেও—তেওঁলোকৰ জন্মেই নিষ্ফল হয়।
Skanda
Tirtha: Pādodaka Tīrtha (Kāśī)
Type: ghat
Listener: null
Scene: A bustling Kāśī ghāṭa with some pilgrims performing tarpaṇa (water offerings) while a distracted visitor walks past; above, a poetic overlay shows water bubbles rising and bursting, symbolizing fleeting life.
FAQs
Because life is transient, one should not waste the rare opportunity of human birth; fulfilling dharma—especially water-rites and ancestral duties in a great tīrtha—is emphasized.
Pādodaka-tīrtha in Kāśī.
Udaka-kriyāḥ—ritual acts with water, typically tarpaṇa/oblations and related offerings at the tīrtha.