Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 17
स्कंद उवाच । ओंनमो गंगादेव्यै । ओंकाररूपिण्यजराऽतुलाऽनमताऽमृतस्रवा । अत्युदाराऽभयाऽशोकाऽलकनंदाऽमृताऽमला
skaṃda uvāca | oṃnamo gaṃgādevyai | oṃkārarūpiṇyajarā'tulā'namatā'mṛtasravā | atyudārā'bhayā'śokā'lakanaṃdā'mṛtā'malā
Skanda dijo: ¡Salve a la Diosa Gaṅgā! Ella cuya forma es el mismo Oṁ; la eterna, incomparable; corriente que derrama néctar para quienes se inclinan. La sumamente generosa, dadora de intrepidez y de ausencia de pena—Alakanandā, inmortal e inmaculada.
Skanda
Tirtha: Gaṅgā (Kāśī-sannidhāna)
Type: ghat
Scene: Skanda as narrator offers a luminous hymn to Gaṅgā; the river appears as a radiant goddess arising from Oṁ, flowing past Kāśī’s ghāṭas with a nectar-like shimmer, granting fearlessness and removing sorrow.
FAQs
Reverent surrender to Gaṅgā is portrayed as a direct encounter with purity and nectar-like grace—fear and sorrow are dispelled through devotion.
Gaṅgā in the Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) sacred landscape—praised as the purifying, nectar-flowing divine river central to Kāśī-māhātmya.
No explicit rite is commanded here; the verse emphasizes namaskāra (bowing/salutation) to Gaṅgā as a devotional act.