Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 57
प्राणायामं तु यः कुर्यादप्येकं मुक्तिमंडपे । तेनाष्टांगः समभ्यस्तो योगोऽन्यत्रायुतं समाः
prāṇāyāmaṃ tu yaḥ kuryādapyekaṃ muktimaṃḍape | tenāṣṭāṃgaḥ samabhyasto yogo'nyatrāyutaṃ samāḥ
Pero quien realice aunque sea un solo prāṇāyāma en el “Pabellón de la Liberación”, por ello se tiene por practicado el yoga de ocho miembros, como si se hubiera ejercitado diez mil años en otro lugar.
Skanda (deduced for Kāśīkhaṇḍa context, addressing Agastya)
Tirtha: Mukti-maṇḍapa (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Scene: In the Mukti Pavilion, a devotee performs a single measured prāṇāyāma before the shrine; the eight limbs of yoga appear symbolically around them, while vast spans of time (10,000 years) fade into insignificance.
FAQs
Place and practice converge: in Kāśī, even minimal yogic effort becomes immensely potent due to the sanctity of the mukti-centered site.
The Mukti-maṇḍapa (Liberation Pavilion) within Kāśī.
Perform prāṇāyāma—explicitly stated as even one cycle—at the Mukti-maṇḍapa.