Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 62
केदारोदकपानेन यथा तत्र फलं भवेत् । तथात्र जायते पुंसां स्त्रीणां चापि न संशयः
kedārodakapānena yathā tatra phalaṃ bhavet | tathātra jāyate puṃsāṃ strīṇāṃ cāpi na saṃśayaḥ
De même que là-bas, à Kedāra, le fruit naît de l’absorption de l’eau de Kedāra, de même ici, à Kāśī, ce même fruit advient aux hommes comme aux femmes, sans aucun doute.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśī-khaṇḍa commonly Skanda speaking to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kedāra-udaka in Kāśī
Type: kund
Listener: General devotees; explicitly inclusive of men and women
Scene: A devotee receives a small vessel of ‘Kedāra-water’ at a Kāśī shrine; men and women stand together, sipping reverently; the shrine’s liṅga glows, suggesting the trans-local sanctity of the water.
FAQs
Sacred merit is not limited by distance; Kāśī mystically grants the same tīrtha-fruit as Kedāra.
Kedāra/Kedāreśvara and its sanctified water, as mirrored within Kāśī.
Drinking (pāna) of Kedāra-water as a merit-bearing act.