Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 12
वियच्च तावदुपरि विस्तारपरिमंडलम् । योजनानां च नियुते भूमेर्भानुर्व्यवस्थितः
viyacca tāvadupari vistāraparimaṃḍalam | yojanānāṃ ca niyute bhūmerbhānurvyavasthitaḥ
તેના ઉપર આકાશનો વિસ્તાર વિશાળ વર્તુળાકાર મંડળ સમાન છે; અને પૃથ્વીથી દસ હજાર યોજન દૂર ભાનુ (સૂર્ય) સ્થિત છે।
Skanda
Listener: vipra (brāhmaṇa)
Scene: A circular firmament like a dome above the earth; the sun depicted as stationed at a measured height, with concentric distance markers (yojana bands) in a schematic sacred diagram.
FAQs
The cosmos is described as structured and intelligible; such order encourages awe and dharmic humility before the Creator’s arrangement.
No single tīrtha is named; the passage supports the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s larger sacred worldview rather than a local shrine-description.
None; the verse is descriptive (cosmological) rather than prescriptive (ritual).
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