Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 91
हा कालबालकवती किमुतेन राज्ञी त्वत्कालतां न हृतवान्नसुताननेंदुः । बालेति कोमलमृणाल लतांगलीलं दंभोलिनिष्ठुरकठोरकुठारदंष्ट्रः
hā kālabālakavatī kimutena rājñī tvatkālatāṃ na hṛtavānnasutānaneṃduḥ | bāleti komalamṛṇāla latāṃgalīlaṃ daṃbholiniṣṭhurakaṭhorakuṭhāradaṃṣṭraḥ
Weh—vom Zeitlauf kinderlos gemacht! Und was ist mit dieser Königin: Hat nicht der Mond des Antlitzes ihres Sohnes ihr das Leben selbst geraubt? „Ein Kind!“—und doch wurde das zarte Spiel eines Leibes, weich wie Lotusstängel und Ranke, von der Zeit getroffen, deren Zähne wie ein grausamer Blitz, wie eine harte Axt, wie eine erbarmungslose Klinge sind.
Narrator/lamentspeaker within the story (describing the queen’s grief)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A queen clutches her chest, staring at the imagined ‘moon-face’ of her son; Kāla is personified with thunderbolt/axe/blade-like fangs striking the tender lotus-stalk body of the child.
FAQs
It stresses impermanence: Time spares none, urging the seeker toward the deathless refuge praised throughout the Kāśī Khaṇḍa.
Not named in the verse; the larger Kāśī Khaṇḍa context points to Kāśī as the sacred place where death is transformed into liberation.
None explicitly.