Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 91
हा कालबालकवती किमुतेन राज्ञी त्वत्कालतां न हृतवान्नसुताननेंदुः । बालेति कोमलमृणाल लतांगलीलं दंभोलिनिष्ठुरकठोरकुठारदंष्ट्रः
hā kālabālakavatī kimutena rājñī tvatkālatāṃ na hṛtavānnasutānaneṃduḥ | bāleti komalamṛṇāla latāṃgalīlaṃ daṃbholiniṣṭhurakaṭhorakuṭhāradaṃṣṭraḥ
Hélas—rendue sans enfant par le Temps ! Et cette reine, qu’en est-il ? La lune du visage de son fils ne lui a-t-elle pas ravi jusqu’à la vie ? «Un enfant !»—pourtant, ce jeu délicat d’un corps pareil à une tige de lotus et à une liane souple a été frappé par le Temps, dont les crocs sont comme la foudre cruelle, la hache dure, la lame impitoyable.
Narrator/lamentspeaker within the story (describing the queen’s grief)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A queen clutches her chest, staring at the imagined ‘moon-face’ of her son; Kāla is personified with thunderbolt/axe/blade-like fangs striking the tender lotus-stalk body of the child.
FAQs
It stresses impermanence: Time spares none, urging the seeker toward the deathless refuge praised throughout the Kāśī Khaṇḍa.
Not named in the verse; the larger Kāśī Khaṇḍa context points to Kāśī as the sacred place where death is transformed into liberation.
None explicitly.