Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 61
धर्मशास्त्रं पुराणानि सेतिहासानि तत्र यः । पठेन्निरभिलाषुः सन्स वसेन्मम वेश्मनि
dharmaśāstraṃ purāṇāni setihāsāni tatra yaḥ | paṭhennirabhilāṣuḥ sansa vasenmama veśmani
वहाँ जो निरभिलाष होकर धर्मशास्त्र, पुराण और इतिहास (इतिहास-ग्रन्थ) पढ़ता है, वह मेरे ही धाम में निवास करता है।
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī (mandapa precinct)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Purāṇic audience within Kāśīkhaṇḍa narration
Scene: A quiet hall in Kāśī where a reader recites from Purāṇa and Itihāsa to attentive listeners; above, a symbolic doorway to ‘my abode’ opens, indicating divine acceptance due to selfless intent.
FAQs
Desireless study of dharma-texts in a sacred place is itself devotion, leading to nearness to Śiva.
The sacred precincts of Kāśī referenced in this adhyāya’s Maṇḍapa-māhātmya.
Svādhyāya: reading/recitation of Dharmaśāstra, Purāṇas, and Itihāsas with detachment.