Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 59
स्कंद उवाच । अन्यान्यपि च विंध्यारे देव्यै प्रोक्तानि शंभुना । स्वभक्तानां हिताथार्य तान्यथाकर्णयाग्रज
skaṃda uvāca | anyānyapi ca viṃdhyāre devyai proktāni śaṃbhunā | svabhaktānāṃ hitāthārya tānyathākarṇayāgraja
スカンダは言った。「さらに、ヴィンディヤの森において、シャンブ（シヴァ）は自らの帰依者の利益のため、女神にほかの教えも説かれた。尊き聖仙よ、今それらを順序正しく聞きなさい。」
Skanda
Tirtha: Vindhyāraṇya (as teaching-locus)
Type: kshetra
Listener: A revered sage (addressed as ‘agraja’)
Scene: Skanda addressing a revered sage, gesturing as if to begin a new set of teachings; behind them, an imagined backdrop of Vindhya forest where Śiva spoke to the Goddess—dense woods, rocky hills, hermitages.
FAQs
Scriptural teachings are transmitted for the welfare of devotees, and the narrative continues with further sacred instructions.
Vindhya is mentioned as the setting of Śiva’s instruction; the broader frame remains the Kāśīkhaṇḍa discourse.
None directly; it is a narrative transition inviting attentive listening (śravaṇa) to further teachings.