Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 34
एतदाख्यानशतकं क्रमेण परिकीर्तितम् । यस्य श्रवणमात्रेण सर्वखंड श्रुतेः फलम् । अनुक्रमणिकाध्यायेप्यस्ति यात्रापरिक्रमः
etadākhyānaśatakaṃ krameṇa parikīrtitam | yasya śravaṇamātreṇa sarvakhaṃḍa śruteḥ phalam | anukramaṇikādhyāyepyasti yātrāparikramaḥ
Ainsi, cette « centaine de récits » a été exposée selon l’ordre ; par la seule écoute, on obtient le fruit d’avoir entendu toutes les sections. Et même dans le chapitre de table (anukramaṇikā) se trouve inclus le circuit de pèlerinage (yātrā-parikramā).
Narratorial/Index-verse (Anukramaṇikā style)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (as a whole)
Type: kshetra
Listener: General audience of listeners/reciters; in-frame interlocutors are about to speak (Sūta to Vyāsa).
Scene: A recitation hall: Sūta/Vyāsa-like figure reading from palm-leaf manuscripts; listeners seated; behind them a faint map-like ring indicating parikramā, suggesting that even summary recitation contains the pilgrimage.
FAQs
Śravaṇa (devotional listening) to Kāśī’s māhātmya is itself a potent dharmic act, promised to yield broad scriptural merit.
Not a single tīrtha; the verse glorifies the entire Kāśī-kṣetra corpus and its pilgrimage-circuit as a unified sacred field.
Śravaṇa (hearing) is praised as merit-bearing; the yātrā-parikramā is indicated as a practice detailed alongside the contents.