Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 37
तीर्थानि यानि लोकेस्मिञ्जंतूनामघहान्यहो । तानि सर्वाणि शुद्ध्यर्थं काशीमायांति नित्यशः
tīrthāni yāni lokesmiñjaṃtūnāmaghahānyaho | tāni sarvāṇi śuddhyarthaṃ kāśīmāyāṃti nityaśaḥ
Alle Tīrthas dieser Welt, die die Sünden der Wesen hinwegnehmen—ja, sie alle—kommen täglich nach Kāśī zu ihrer eigenen Läuterung.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī (as tīrtha-sāra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: Personified tīrthas—rivers, lakes, and sacred fords—arrive as luminous beings carrying water-pots, bowing at Kāśī’s ghāṭas to bathe in Gaṅgā and receive renewed purity.
FAQs
Kāśī is presented as the supreme tīrtha whose sanctity surpasses other pilgrimage places.
Kāśī, described as the gathering-place and purifier even of other tīrthas.
No explicit ritual; the verse supports the practice of pilgrimage to Kāśī for purification.