Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 88
किंदेवता अहह जन्ममहोत्सवेऽस्य ज्ञात्वेति भाविमिलिता युगपत्समस्ताः । एकस्थ सर्वगुण शील कलाकलाप सौंदर्यलक्षणपरीक्षणपूर्णहर्षाः
kiṃdevatā ahaha janmamahotsave'sya jñātveti bhāvimilitā yugapatsamastāḥ | ekastha sarvaguṇa śīla kalākalāpa sauṃdaryalakṣaṇaparīkṣaṇapūrṇaharṣāḥ
「これはいかなる神格であろうか」—そう思い、衆生は彼の盛大な誕生の祝祭に一斉に集い、この一人の幼子に、あらゆる徳、品性、諸芸、麗しさ、吉祥の相が完全に具わるのを見て、歓喜に満たされた。
Narrator (Purāṇic narrative voice within Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A grand birth-festival: crowds gather asking ‘which deity is this?’, examining the child’s auspicious marks; the child sits at the center, radiant, while musicians and lamps fill the scene.
FAQs
True greatness is recognized by the harmony of virtue, conduct, and auspicious qualities—seen as signs of divine favor and accumulated merit.
Not specified in the verse; the Kāśī Khaṇḍa setting continues to foreground Kāśī as the sacred stage for extraordinary spiritual events.
No direct prescription; it references a janma-mahotsava (birth celebration) as a social-religious occasion.