Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 12
यांति प्रदक्षिणीकृत्य ये भवंतं भवं विभो । भवंति तेषां कार्याणि पुरोभूतानि ते भयात्
yāṃti pradakṣiṇīkṛtya ye bhavaṃtaṃ bhavaṃ vibho | bhavaṃti teṣāṃ kāryāṇi purobhūtāni te bhayāt
Those who, having circumambulated You—Bhava, O Almighty Lord—go on their way, find their undertakings already accomplished beforehand, as though the deeds themselves hasten ahead out of fear of Your power.
Skanda (deduced, Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)
Tirtha: Bhava-pradakṣiṇā in Kāśī (Viśveśvara precinct)
Type: ghat
Listener: Ṛṣis / internal audience
Scene: Devotees circumambulate Śiva with folded hands; ahead of them, personified ‘tasks’ run forward as if frightened, clearing the path—an allegory of vighnas fleeing Śiva’s majesty.
FAQs
Śiva-worship through pradakṣiṇā brings swift, almost effortless completion of rightful aims.
Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), where Śiva is central and temple-circumambulation is treated as highly meritorious.
Pradakṣiṇā—circumambulation of Śiva (Bhava)—as an efficacious devotional act.