Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 63
तदंघ्रिलीनमनसो मम साक्षी महेश्वरः । न चर्तुस्नातयापीह मुखं दुष्टस्य वीक्षितम्
tadaṃghrilīnamanaso mama sākṣī maheśvaraḥ | na cartusnātayāpīha mukhaṃ duṣṭasya vīkṣitam
Bagiku, yang batinnya melekat pada kaki-Nya, Maheśvara menjadi saksiku. Di sini bahkan orang yang telah disucikan dengan ‘empat kali mandi’ pun tidak memandang wajah orang jahat.
Unspecified admonisher in narrative (within Skanda’s Kāśīkhaṇḍa discourse to Agastya-context)
Tirtha: Kāśī / Avimukta
Type: kshetra
Scene: A devotee in Kāśī with folded hands, eyes lowered in humility, mentally clinging to Śiva’s feet; nearby, a figure marked as wicked is deliberately not looked at; a liṅga or Śiva’s feet glow as witness.
FAQs
Śiva is the inner witness; purity is not merely ritual bathing but also moral separation from wickedness and devotion fixed on the Lord’s feet.
The verse sits in the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī context, highlighting Śaiva devotion rather than naming a particular tīrtha.
Reference is made to frequent bathing (cārtu-snātā), but no explicit injunction is given—ritual purity is contrasted with ethical purity.