काश्यां पादोदके तीर्थे यैः कृता नोदकक्रियाः । जन्मैव विफलं तेषां जलबुद्बुद सश्रियाम्
kāśyāṃ pādodake tīrthe yaiḥ kṛtā nodakakriyāḥ | janmaiva viphalaṃ teṣāṃ jalabudbuda saśriyām
Quienes no realizan los ritos de agua en el sagrado Pādodaka de Kāśī—aunque posean el fugaz esplendor de la vida, como burbujas sobre el agua—hacen estéril su propio nacimiento.
Skanda
Tirtha: Pādodaka Tīrtha (Kāśī)
Type: ghat
Listener: null
Scene: A bustling Kāśī ghāṭa with some pilgrims performing tarpaṇa (water offerings) while a distracted visitor walks past; above, a poetic overlay shows water bubbles rising and bursting, symbolizing fleeting life.
Because life is transient, one should not waste the rare opportunity of human birth; fulfilling dharma—especially water-rites and ancestral duties in a great tīrtha—is emphasized.
Pādodaka-tīrtha in Kāśī.
Udaka-kriyāḥ—ritual acts with water, typically tarpaṇa/oblations and related offerings at the tīrtha.