Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 75
क्षरंत इव मातंगाः स्रवंत इव पर्वताः । मदेन धातुरागेण मिश्रैः शुशुभिरे गणाः
kṣaraṃta iva mātaṃgāḥ sravaṃta iva parvatāḥ | madena dhāturāgeṇa miśraiḥ śuśubhire gaṇāḥ
ガナたちは輝いた――発情の液をにじませる象のように、流れをしみ出す山のように――酔いの色と鉱の赤き流れとが混じる色に塗れて。
Narrator (Kāśīkhaṇḍa narration traditionally Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Avimukta-Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A host of Śiva’s gaṇas, bodies smeared with mingled red mineral streaks and the sheen of intoxicated vigor, gleam like rutting elephants and seep-scarred mountains, assembling before combat.
FAQs
The Purāṇa uses nature-similes to convey the overwhelming, world-like force of divine attendants, suggesting that cosmic order expresses itself even through fierce forms.
Within the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī framework, but this verse is not a direct description of a tīrtha.
None.