Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 28
किं वंश्यस्त्वेष किं गोत्रः किं देशीयः किमात्मकः । किं वृत्तिः किं समाचारो विपा दी वृषवाहनः
kiṃ vaṃśyastveṣa kiṃ gotraḥ kiṃ deśīyaḥ kimātmakaḥ | kiṃ vṛttiḥ kiṃ samācāro vipā dī vṛṣavāhanaḥ
Welcher Abstammung ist er? Welcher Gotra gehört er an? Aus welchem Land stammt er—was ist sein eigentliches Wesen? Wovon lebt er, welche Sitten hat er—dieser mit dem Stierbanner, stets von seltsamen Unheilen umgeben?
Dakṣa (as reported in Skanda’s narration)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A courtly or learned assembly in Kāśī debates the identity of the bull-bannered ascetic-god; figures gesture in questioning while, in the background, a hint of cremation-ground and a distant liṅga-shrine suggests the Lord’s true locus beyond society.
FAQs
Reducing the divine to social labels (lineage, region, custom) is ignorance; true dharma recognizes transcendent reality beyond egoic categories.
No specific tīrtha is named; the teaching is embedded within the Kāśī-centered Purāṇic discourse.
None; the verse is polemical speech revealing Dakṣa’s adharma of contempt.