Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 28
किं वंश्यस्त्वेष किं गोत्रः किं देशीयः किमात्मकः । किं वृत्तिः किं समाचारो विपा दी वृषवाहनः
kiṃ vaṃśyastveṣa kiṃ gotraḥ kiṃ deśīyaḥ kimātmakaḥ | kiṃ vṛttiḥ kiṃ samācāro vipā dī vṛṣavāhanaḥ
De quelle lignée est-il ? Quel est son gotra ? De quel pays vient-il—quelle est sa nature même ? Quel est son gagne-pain, quelles sont ses coutumes—lui, au drapeau du taureau, sans cesse entouré d’étranges calamités ?
Dakṣa (as reported in Skanda’s narration)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A courtly or learned assembly in Kāśī debates the identity of the bull-bannered ascetic-god; figures gesture in questioning while, in the background, a hint of cremation-ground and a distant liṅga-shrine suggests the Lord’s true locus beyond society.
FAQs
Reducing the divine to social labels (lineage, region, custom) is ignorance; true dharma recognizes transcendent reality beyond egoic categories.
No specific tīrtha is named; the teaching is embedded within the Kāśī-centered Purāṇic discourse.
None; the verse is polemical speech revealing Dakṣa’s adharma of contempt.