Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 17
धन्योस्म्यनुगृहीतोस्मि त्वत्त्रिशूलाग्रसंस्थितः । कालेन सर्वैर्मर्तव्यं श्रेयसे मृत्युरीदृशः
dhanyosmyanugṛhītosmi tvattriśūlāgrasaṃsthitaḥ | kālena sarvairmartavyaṃ śreyase mṛtyurīdṛśaḥ
我は幸いなり、恩寵を受けたり――汝の三叉戟の先に据えられて。時至ればすべては死すべし、されどこのような死は最高の善へと至らしむ。
Gajāsura
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Kāśīkhaṇḍa frame audience (not specified in verse)
Scene: A beatific tableau: Gajāsura declares himself blessed on the triśūla’s tip; Śiva’s face radiates compassion and inevitability; time (Kāla) is suggested symbolically—fading battlefield, rising spiritual light.
FAQs
When death is embraced as divine grace, it becomes śreyas (spiritual welfare) rather than mere loss.
Kāśī’s mokṣa-oriented vision is the implied background: Śiva’s presence makes even the end of life spiritually transformative.
None; the verse emphasizes inner orientation (bhāva) and grace.