Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 62
अस्योत्पत्तिं शृणु पतेर्वरुणस्यमहात्मनः । आसीन्मुनिरमेयात्मा कर्दमस्य प्रजापतेः
asyotpattiṃ śṛṇu patervaruṇasyamahātmanaḥ | āsīnmunirameyātmā kardamasya prajāpateḥ
Écoute l’origine de ce seigneur Varuṇa à la grande âme. Il y eut un sage à l’esprit sans mesure, né de Kardama Prajāpati.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśī Khaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Listener: Ṛṣi-audience (contextual)
Scene: A sage narrates to seated listeners under a banyan near a riverbank; above, a symbolic vision of Kardama Prajāpati and a luminous lineage-stream leading to Varuṇa.
FAQs
Purāṇic dharma frames cosmic offices (like Varuṇa’s) within sacred lineages, emphasizing order, continuity, and divine purpose.
The narrative occurs within Kāśī Khaṇḍa’s praise-context, preparing a theological background for Kāśī’s water-associated sanctity.
None; it introduces a genealogical-kathā (origin narrative) about Varuṇa.