Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 62
दीक्षितो राजसूयस्य दत्तत्रैलोक्यदक्षिणः । मारीचः कश्यपश्चासौ प्रजापतिषु सत्तमः । त्रयोदशमिताभिश्च भार्याभिस्तव कार्यकृत्
dīkṣito rājasūyasya dattatrailokyadakṣiṇaḥ | mārīcaḥ kaśyapaścāsau prajāpatiṣu sattamaḥ | trayodaśamitābhiśca bhāryābhistava kāryakṛt
वह राजसूय का दीक्षित है और त्रैलोक्य को दक्षिणा रूप में देने वाला है। वही मरीचि-कश्यप, प्रजापतियों में श्रेष्ठ, अपनी तेरह पत्नियों सहित तुम्हारा कार्य सिद्ध करता है।
Skanda (deduced, Kāśīkhaṇḍa norm)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: In-text interlocutor (context-dependent)
Scene: A majestic Rājasūya consecration scene: Marīci–Kaśyapa, best of Prajāpatis, stands as officiant/agent with thirteen wives, while the notion of gifting the three worlds is symbolized by three globes/realms offered at the altar.
FAQs
Even the highest royal-sacrificial ideals are framed as requiring immense purity and cosmic-level generosity, embodied by exalted progenitors.
The verse is part of Kāśī-khaṇḍa’s broader glorification of dharma in Kāśī, rather than a pinpointed tirtha description.
Rājasūya dīkṣā and dakṣiṇā (sacrificial fee) are referenced—depicting an extreme ideal of giving (trailokya-dakṣiṇā).