Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 56
न नारी तादृगस्तीह ना भरी किन्नरी न च । विद्याधरी न नो नागी गंधर्वी नासुरी न च
na nārī tādṛgastīha nā bharī kinnarī na ca | vidyādharī na no nāgī gaṃdharvī nāsurī na ca
No existe aquí mujer semejante a ella: ni entre las doncellas celestiales, ni entre las kinnarīs. Ni una vidyādharī, ni una nāgī, ni una gandharvī, ni siquiera una asurī podía igualarla.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis
Scene: A tableau of comparative figures: faint, ethereal silhouettes of kinnarīs, vidyādharīs, nāgīs, gandharvīs in the sky, all visually ‘dimmed’ beside the central maiden in Kāśī, emphasizing her unmatched presence.
FAQs
Purāṇic praise uses cosmic comparisons to show how extraordinary qualities can manifest in the human realm within a sacred kṣetra.
Kāśī, implicitly, as the setting where such remarkable lives are narrated.
None; this is descriptive praise within the storyline.