Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 56
सत्यं वदंति नासत्यं दैवप्राधान्यवादिनः । दैवमेव फलेदेकं नोद्यमो नापरं बलम्
satyaṃ vadaṃti nāsatyaṃ daivaprādhānyavādinaḥ | daivameva phaledekaṃ nodyamo nāparaṃ balam
天命の至上を説く者たちは、偽りではなく真実を語る。「果として熟すのはただ天命のみ。人の努力は真の力ではなく、他のいかなる力もまた然り。」
Narrative voices within Kāśīkhaṇḍa (contextually Skanda’s narration; here: women/conversants speaking among themselves)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and sages (frame) / internal interlocutors (companions)
Scene: A calm conversational setting in Kāśī: companions debating destiny and effort, with the spiritual aura of the city in the background—ghāṭas, lamps, and distant Viśvanātha spire.
FAQs
It highlights a worldview where providence (daiva) is treated as the decisive factor behind outcomes, relativizing personal effort.
The broader frame is Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) in the Kāśīkhaṇḍa, though this verse itself is philosophical rather than a direct tirtha-glorification.
None explicitly; the verse focuses on causality (fate vs effort), not a rite.