Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 80
कृतकृत्यमिवात्मानं ततो मत्वा स विघ्नजित् । विधाय बहुधात्मानं काश्यां स्थितिमवाप च
kṛtakṛtyamivātmānaṃ tato matvā sa vighnajit | vidhāya bahudhātmānaṃ kāśyāṃ sthitimavāpa ca
Then Vighnajit, considering himself as one who had accomplished his purpose, manifested himself in many forms and took up his abiding station in Kāśī.
Narrator (Skanda, in Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and sages (frame)
Scene: Vighnajit stands at a Kāśī crossroads and multiplies into many identical forms spreading through lanes, ghats, and palace corridors, as if occupying the city’s very breath.
FAQs
Kāśī is portrayed as a divinely inhabited realm where sacred powers establish enduring presence for the world’s welfare.
Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) itself is foregrounded as the holy locus.
None directly; it explains the theological basis for Kāśī’s sanctity—divine residence.