Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 6
शममेनो व्रजेदेवं बैजं गर्भजमवे च । स्त्रीणामेताः क्रियास्तूष्णीं पाणिग्राहस्तु मंत्रवान्
śamameno vrajedevaṃ baijaṃ garbhajamave ca | strīṇāmetāḥ kriyāstūṣṇīṃ pāṇigrāhastu maṃtravān
इस प्रकार बीजजन्य और गर्भजन्य मल (दोष) शान्त होकर दूर हो जाते हैं। स्त्रियों के लिए ये संस्कार मौन से किए जाते हैं, पर पाणिग्रहण (विवाह में हाथ ग्रहण) मंत्रों सहित होता है।
Skanda (contextual continuity)
Tirtha: Avimukta-Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: Symbolic purification: a priest performs saṃskāra rites as dark wisps (doṣas) dissolve; a parallel scene shows a wedding pāṇigraha with mantras, sacred fire, and the couple’s joined hands.
FAQs
Saṃskāras are portrayed as purificatory, reducing inherited and embodied impurities and establishing dharmic life-stages.
The instruction is part of Kāśī’s Kāśīkhaṇḍa teaching on dharma; no specific tirtha is named in this verse.
Women’s rites are indicated as performed silently, while the marriage hand-taking (pāṇigraha) is explicitly mantra-accompanied.
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