पार्वत्युवाच । गगनतलमिलितसलिले प्रलयेपि भव त्रिशूलपरि विधृताम् । कृतपुंडरीकशोभां स्मरहरकाशीं पुरीं यावः
pārvatyuvāca | gaganatalamilitasalile pralayepi bhava triśūlapari vidhṛtām | kṛtapuṃḍarīkaśobhāṃ smaraharakāśīṃ purīṃ yāvaḥ
Pārvatī said: “O Bhava, even in the cosmic dissolution, when the waters meet the vault of the sky, let us go to Kāśī—the city upheld upon your trident—shining with lotus-like splendor, O slayer of Smara.”
Pārvatī
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and other ṛṣis (frame, implied)
Scene: Cosmic flood reaches the sky; yet Kāśī shines like a lotus, held aloft on Śiva’s trident. Pārvatī urges Bhava to go there; Śiva stands as Smarahara, calm amid dissolution.
Kāśī is portrayed as transcendently protected by Śiva—spiritually enduring even beyond cosmic cycles.
Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), envisioned as upheld on Śiva’s triśūla during pralaya.
The impulse is pilgrimage (yātrā) to Kāśī; no detailed rite is specified in this verse.