Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 7
सर्पदष्टस्य संस्कारः कथं भवति चेति वै । तावत्स जीवन्नुत्तस्थौ सुप्तवच्चौपजंघनिः
sarpadaṣṭasya saṃskāraḥ kathaṃ bhavati ceti vai | tāvatsa jīvannuttasthau suptavaccaupajaṃghaniḥ
“How can the funerary rites be performed for one who has been bitten by a serpent?”—as he was thinking thus, at that very moment Upajaṅghani rose up alive, as if waking from sleep.
Skanda (narration)
Tirtha: Svargadvāra-Mahāśmaśāna (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka-ādi ṛṣis
Scene: The sage, worried about how to perform rites for a snake-bitten man, pauses in thought; suddenly the ‘corpse’ sits up, eyes opening like one waking, ash swirling around, liṅga glowing quietly nearby.
FAQs
Kāśī’s Śaiva sanctity is portrayed as so potent that even death-like states can be reversed by proximity to Śiva’s sacred presence.
The Mahāśmaśāna/Svargadvāra zone of Kāśī, in association with a nearby Liṅga.
It references saṃskāra in the sense of funerary rites (antyeṣṭi), though no procedure is detailed.