Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 37
कालधर्मवशंयाता तत्र सा वरनर्तकी । सुता गंधर्वराजस्य वसुभूतेर्बभूव ह
kāladharmavaśaṃyātā tatra sā varanartakī | sutā gaṃdharvarājasya vasubhūterbabhūva ha
वहाँ काल-धर्म के वश में आकर (देह त्यागकर) वह श्रेष्ठ नर्तकी गंधर्वराज वसुभूति की पुत्री बनकर उत्पन्न हुई।
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Ratneśvara context)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣi audience (frame)
Scene: A contemplative tableau: the dancer’s life in Kāśī ends under the law of Time; the scene shifts to a luminous Gandharva court where she is reborn as a radiant daughter of King Vasubhūti, with celestial instruments and fragrant breezes.
FAQs
Devotional impressions and actions continue across births; time-bound mortality does not end spiritual momentum.
The narrative continues within the Ratneśvara setting in Kāśī, a sacred Śaiva geography.
No direct ritual is prescribed here; it establishes karmic transition and the devotee’s rebirth context.