Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 3
तदेतत्क्षेत्रमापूर्य स्थितं सर्वगमप्यहो । किमन्यत्र न शक्तोसौ जंतून्मोचयितुं भवात्
tadetatkṣetramāpūrya sthitaṃ sarvagamapyaho | kimanyatra na śaktosau jaṃtūnmocayituṃ bhavāt
সেই পরম তত্ত্ব এই ক্ষেত্র পূর্ণ করে এখানে অবস্থান করে, যদিও সর্বগামী; তবে অন্যত্র কি তিনি ভববন্ধন থেকে জীবদের মুক্ত করতে সক্ষম নন—এ প্রশ্ন ওঠে।
Skanda (continuing instruction to Agastya)
Tirtha: Avimukta
Type: kshetra
Listener: Agastya
Scene: A contemplative ‘question’ moment: Skanda indicates the kṣetra filled with the Supreme; sages show inquisitive expressions; background shows Kāśī’s sacred field as a luminous mandala overlaying the city/river, suggesting omnipresence concentrated.
FAQs
It raises the theological question behind kṣetra-māhātmya: how a universal Divine is specially accessible in a holy place.
Avimukta-kṣetra within Kāśī is implied as the ‘kṣetra’ uniquely associated with liberation.
None; it introduces a doctrinal inquiry that the subsequent verses address.