Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 36
तमोंधकूपपतितमुद्यन्नेष दिनेदिने । प्रसार्य परितः पाणीन्प्राणिजातं समुद्धरेत्
tamoṃdhakūpapatitamudyanneṣa dinedine | prasārya paritaḥ pāṇīnprāṇijātaṃ samuddharet
Rising day after day, he lifts up the multitude of living beings that have fallen into the blind well of darkness, as though stretching out his hands on every side.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśī Khaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (metaphor of uplift from tamas)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and ṛṣis (traditional)
Scene: Sūrya rises with anthropomorphic compassion—arms extended—pulling beings from a dark, circular well; the world transitions from deep indigo night to saffron dawn.
FAQs
Light is portrayed as rescue: divine order continually raises beings from ignorance and inertia toward awareness and life.
No specific Kāśī location is named; the imagery is universal and devotional.
None directly; the verse implicitly honors daily sunrise devotion and the dhārmic ideal of moving from tamas to light.