Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 48
यस्तु क्षेत्रमुषित्वा तु नैतां यात्रां समाचरेत् । विघ्नास्तस्योपतिष्ठंते क्षेत्रोच्चाटनसूचकाः
yastu kṣetramuṣitvā tu naitāṃ yātrāṃ samācaret | vighnāstasyopatiṣṭhaṃte kṣetroccāṭanasūcakāḥ
Namun siapa yang tinggal di kṣetra suci tetapi tidak menjalankan ziarah ini, rintangan akan menimpanya—sebagai pertanda akan terusir dari kṣetra itu.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly as Skanda teaching Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (resident’s yātrā obligation)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A Kāśī resident neglects the yātrā; dark clouds and symbolic impediments—closed temple doors, tangled streets, broken offering pot—appear as omens of kṣetra-uccāṭana.
FAQs
Privilege of dwelling in Kāśī demands observance; neglect of prescribed devotion invites vighnas and spiritual decline.
Kāśī as a kṣetra whose continued grace is linked to maintaining its yātrā-dharma.
Residents must perform the stated yātrā; failure is warned to bring obstacles signaling loss of kṣetra-connection.