Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 65
कमठीपृष्ठकठिनावकर्मकरणौ करौ । राज्यहेतू शिशोरस्य पादौ चाध्वनि कोमलौ
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បើដៃកុមាររឹងមាំ និងរឹងដូចខ្នងអណ្តើក—សមស្របសម្រាប់ការងារ—វាក្លាយជាមូលហេតុនាំទៅកាន់រាជ្យ; ហើយបើជើងរបស់គាត់ទន់ភ្លន់សម្រាប់ដំណើរ គាត់ត្រូវបានកំណត់ឲ្យចេញដំណើរតាមមហាមាគ៌ា។
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A child in Kāśī is shown with sturdy, tortoise-shell-like hands gripping a small tool or lotus-staff, while tender feet step onto a long road leading from Gaṅgā ghāṭas toward distant tīrthas—suggesting future sovereignty and pilgrimage.
FAQs
Capacity for righteous action and purposeful movement is portrayed as a sign of ripened merit leading to authority and responsibility.
Kāśī is the overarching sacred landscape, but this verse itself is not tīrtha-specific.
None; it is a lakṣaṇa (characteristic) and phala (result) statement.