Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 15
तस्य लिंगस्य माहात्म्यमाविर्भावं च सुंदरि । निशामयाभिधास्यामि महापातक नाशनम्
tasya liṃgasya māhātmyamāvirbhāvaṃ ca suṃdari | niśāmayābhidhāsyāmi mahāpātaka nāśanam
O Schöne, höre: Ich will die Größe jenes Liṅga und sein heiliges Erscheinen verkünden — eine Herrlichkeit, die selbst große Sünden vernichtet.
Skanda
Tirtha: That Kāśī Liṅga (mahāpātaka-nāśana)
Type: kshetra
Listener: ‘Sundarī’ (female addressee)
Scene: A storyteller-sage addresses a ‘sundarī’ listener in a Kāśī courtyard near a shrine; behind them the liṅga glows subtly, indicating imminent narration of its manifestation; listeners sit in attentive semicircle.
FAQs
Hearing the māhātmya of a sacred Liṅga is itself framed as a dharmic act connected with purification from grave sins.
A particular Liṅga in Kāśī/Ānandavana is being introduced; its detailed identity is to follow in the subsequent narration.
Śravaṇa (attentive listening) to the māhātmya is explicitly urged; the verse also signals sin-destruction as the fruit.