Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 15
वेत्ति नीलादिवर्णस्य कटम्लादिरसस्यहि । अकस्मादन्यथाभावं षण्मासेन स मृत्युभाक्
vetti nīlādivarṇasya kaṭamlādirasasyahi | akasmādanyathābhāvaṃ ṣaṇmāsena sa mṛtyubhāk
যদি কেউ নীল প্রভৃতি বর্ণ এবং তিক্ত–অম্ল প্রভৃতি রস হঠাৎ অন্যরূপে পরিবর্তিত হতে দেখে, তবে সে ব্যক্তি ছয় মাসের মধ্যে মৃত্যুর ভাগী হয়।
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣi-audience (generic)
Scene: A devotee experiences altered perception: blues and other hues shift unnaturally; tastes turn bitter-sour unexpectedly. The figure sits by the Gaṅgā steps, realizing the six-month horizon and turning toward a distant Śiva shrine.
FAQs
Impermanence can be signaled even through the senses; the wise respond by strengthening devotion, ethics, and readiness for the next state.
The setting is the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī-mahātmya framework, though this particular verse focuses on omens rather than naming a single tīrtha.
None explicitly; the verse gives diagnostic portents (nimittas).