Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 75
क्षरंत इव मातंगाः स्रवंत इव पर्वताः । मदेन धातुरागेण मिश्रैः शुशुभिरे गणाः
kṣaraṃta iva mātaṃgāḥ sravaṃta iva parvatāḥ | madena dhāturāgeṇa miśraiḥ śuśubhire gaṇāḥ
Die Gaṇas erstrahlten – wie Elefanten, die Mad ausschwitzen, wie Berge, aus denen Bäche sickern – bestrichen mit den vermischten Tönen von Rausch und mineralrotem Fluss.
Narrator (Kāśīkhaṇḍa narration traditionally Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Avimukta-Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A host of Śiva’s gaṇas, bodies smeared with mingled red mineral streaks and the sheen of intoxicated vigor, gleam like rutting elephants and seep-scarred mountains, assembling before combat.
FAQs
The Purāṇa uses nature-similes to convey the overwhelming, world-like force of divine attendants, suggesting that cosmic order expresses itself even through fierce forms.
Within the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī framework, but this verse is not a direct description of a tīrtha.
None.