उपविश्वेश्वरं काश्यां ज्ञानवाप्यां रमे मुदा । जनको मे हरिस्वामी जनयित्री प्रियंवदा
upaviśveśvaraṃ kāśyāṃ jñānavāpyāṃ rame mudā | janako me harisvāmī janayitrī priyaṃvadā
In Kāśī, bei Upaviśveśvara und an der heiligen Jñānavāpī, frohlockte ich voller Freude. Mein Vater war Harisvāmin, meine Mutter Priyaṃvadā.
Kalāvatī (narrating her remembrance)
Tirtha: Jñānavāpī; Upaviśveśvara
Type: kund
Listener: A listener within the Kāśīkhaṇḍa frame (contextual interlocutors of the chapter)
Scene: A devotee-woman narrates her past in Kāśī: she stands near a stone-lined sacred well (Jñānavāpī) with the Upaviśveśvara liṅga nearby; lamps, bilva leaves, and pilgrims frame the scene; her face shows delighted recollection.
Kāśī’s tīrthas, especially Jñānavāpī, are praised as joy-giving and spiritually illuminating, grounding personal identity in sacred place and dharma.
Jñānavāpī in Kāśī, along with the locale of Upaviśveśvara.
No explicit rite is prescribed here; the focus is on the auspiciousness of being at/seeing Jñānavāpī and Upaviśveśvara.