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Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 26

Devanagari script

गंगाभस्यपि तिष्ठंति षष्टिकोटिमितानिहि । सिद्धलिंगानि तानीशे तिष्येऽदृश्यत्वमाययुः

Transliteration

gaṃgābhasyapi tiṣṭhaṃti ṣaṣṭikoṭimitānihi | siddhaliṃgāni tānīśe tiṣye'dṛśyatvamāyayuḥ

Translation

ガンガーの岸辺そのものにリンガが立つ。まことに六千万の数である。あの成就した（シッダ）リンガは、女神よ、ティシュヤ（カリ）の時代に、マーヤーによって不可視となった。

Word by Word
गंगाभस्यof Gaṅgābha
गंगाभस्य:
Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootगङ्गाभ (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग (प्रयोगानुसार), षष्ठी विभक्ति, एकवचन (Genitive singular)
अपिalso/even
अपि:
Sambandha (Particle/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअपि (अव्यय)
Formनिपात (particle)
तिष्ठन्तिstand; remain
तिष्ठन्ति:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√स्था (धातु)
Formलट् लकार (Present), प्रथमपुरुष, बहुवचन; परस्मैपद
षष्टिकोटिमितानिnumbering sixty crores
षष्टिकोटिमितानि:
Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootषष्टि-कोटि-मित (प्रातिपदिक; समास)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया विभक्ति, बहुवचन; ‘षष्टिकोट्या मितानि’ = measured/numbering sixty crores
हिindeed
हि:
Sambandha (Particle/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootहि (अव्यय)
Formनिपात (emphatic particle)
सिद्धलिंगानिthe accomplished (siddha) liṅgas
सिद्धलिंगानि:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootसिद्ध-लिङ्ग (प्रातिपदिक; समास)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया विभक्ति, बहुवचन; कर्मधारय: ‘सिद्धानि लिङ्गानि’
तानिthose
तानि:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया विभक्ति, बहुवचन
ईशेin/at Īśa (Lord Śiva)
ईशे:
Adhikarana (Locus/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootईश (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी विभक्ति, एकवचन (Locative singular)
तिष्येin (the time of) Tiṣya
तिष्ये:
Adhikarana (Time/Locus/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootतिष्य (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी विभक्ति, एकवचन (Locative singular)
अदृश्यत्वम्invisibility
अदृश्यत्वम्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootअ-दृश्य-त्व (प्रातिपदिक; समास/तद्धित)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया विभक्ति, एकवचन; ‘अदृश्यस्य भावः’ (त्व-प्रत्यय)
आययुःattained; came to
आययुः:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√या (धातु)
Formलिट् लकार (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष, बहुवचन; परस्मैपद; ‘they attained/came to’
Speaker

Skanda

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Gaṅgā-taṭa (Kāśī)

Type: ghat

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Pārvatī (Devī)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Along the Gaṅgā ghāṭs of Kāśī, countless liṅgas are implied—some visible, many hidden—while Śiva explains to Pārvatī that in Kali they have become unseen by māyā.

Characters & Entities
P
Pārvatī
G
Gaṅgā
S
Siddha-liṅga
T
Tiṣya (Kali Yuga)
K
Kāśī

FAQs

Kāśī’s sanctity persists even when sacred forms become hidden in Kali Yuga; absence to the eye does not mean absence of power.

The Gaṅgā-bank in Kāśī (Gaṅgā-tīra) as a locus of innumerable siddha-liṅgas.

No direct prescription; it provides a yuga-based explanation for why many liṅgas are not visible.

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