ततो गणाः परिक्षुब्धाः प्रलयार्णव नीरवत् । आः किमेतत्किमेतद्वै भाषमाणाः परस्परम्
tato gaṇāḥ parikṣubdhāḥ pralayārṇava nīravat | āḥ kimetatkimetadvai bhāṣamāṇāḥ parasparam
Da gerieten die Gaṇas in Aufruhr, wie die Wasser des Ozeans zur Zeit der Auflösung, und riefen einander zu: „Ah! Was ist das—was ist das wahrlich?“
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa narrative voice to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (Śaṃbhu-dhāma)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Purāṇic audience (frame not explicit in the verse)
Scene: Śiva’s gaṇas, startled and disordered, surge like storm-tossed dissolution-waters; their faces show astonishment as they cry out to one another within the shadow of the sacred abode.
Even mighty celestial beings tremble before the incomprehensible movements of the Divine.
The broader passage belongs to Kāśī’s glorification in the Kāśīkhaṇḍa, centered on Śiva’s presence in Vārāṇasī.
None; the verse is a narrative reaction of the gaṇas.