Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 15
अगमिष्यदहोकथं सतापो ननु दक्षांगजयाय एधितः । ममजीवातुलता झटित्यलं ह्यभविष्यन्न हिमाद्रिजा यदि
agamiṣyadahokathaṃ satāpo nanu dakṣāṃgajayāya edhitaḥ | mamajīvātulatā jhaṭityalaṃ hyabhaviṣyanna himādrijā yadi
Weh mir! Wie könnte ich in solcher brennenden Qual weiterleben? Wahrlich, diese Pein ist durch Dakṣas Tochter nur noch gewachsen. Wäre die Tochter des Himālaya nicht hier, so endete mein Leben augenblicklich.
Śiva
Tirtha: Avimukta (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Primary interlocutor within Kāśīkhaṇḍa frame (traditionally sages/Śaunaka-group in Purāṇic setting)
Scene: Śiva, consumed by inner heat of separation, laments that life itself would end without Himālaya’s daughter; the background hints at Kāśī as the cooling, saving horizon.
FAQs
Even Śiva’s speech frames separation and suffering as a force that drives the soul toward the supreme refuge—Kāśī/Avimukta—where liberation is promised.
Kāśī, implied as the ultimate solace for Śiva’s burning separation, setting up the Avimukta-kṣetra mahātmya.
None directly; the verse is emotional-theological, preparing the ground for Kāśī’s salvific greatness rather than prescribing a rite.