Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 80
उदग्वहायाः स्वर्धुन्या रम्ये रोधसि विघ्नराट् । लंबोदरादुदीच्यां तु वक्रतुंडोघसंघहृत्
udagvahāyāḥ svardhunyā ramye rodhasi vighnarāṭ | laṃbodarādudīcyāṃ tu vakratuṃḍoghasaṃghahṛt
On the lovely bank of the celestial river that flows northward abides Vighna-rāṭ, the Lord of Obstacles. And to the north of Lambodara stands Vakratuṇḍa, who removes heaps of sin.
Skanda
Tirtha: Vighnarāṭ (Udagvāhā Svardhunī-tīra) and Vakratuṇḍa (north of Lambodara)
Type: ghat
Listener: Pilgrimage audience
Scene: A luminous riverbank scene: Vighnarāṭ stationed by the north-flowing sacred stream; further north, Vakratuṇḍa near/above a Lambodara shrine-marker; pilgrims offer durvā as dark ‘sin heaps’ dissolve into the water’s radiance.
FAQs
Kāśī’s Gaṅgā-banks are framed as spiritually potent: Vināyaka forms both remove obstacles and cleanse accumulated sin.
The beautiful riverbank of Svardhunī (Gaṅgā) in Kāśī, and the northern sector relative to Lambodara where Vakratuṇḍa is situated.
No explicit procedure is stated; the verse identifies locations and fruits—obstacle-control and sin-removal—associated with these Vināyakas.