Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 67
इति ते कथिता विप्र लोकानां च परिस्थितिः । इदानीं कथयिष्यावस्तवनिर्वाण कारणम्
iti te kathitā vipra lokānāṃ ca paristhitiḥ | idānīṃ kathayiṣyāvastavanirvāṇa kāraṇam
ដូច្នេះហើយ ឱ ព្រាហ្មណ៍ ខ្ញុំបានពន្យល់អំពីស្ថានភាពនៃលោកទាំងឡាយដល់អ្នក។ ឥឡូវនេះ ខ្ញុំនឹងប្រាប់ហេតុនៃនិរវាណ (មុក្កតិ) របស់អ្នក។
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: vipra (brāhmaṇa)
Scene: A teacher-narrator addressing a brāhmaṇa listener, gesture of instruction; background hints of Kāśī—ghāṭas, temples, and the river—signaling the shift to liberation teaching.
FAQs
Liberation is not accidental; it has a discernible cause taught through sacred instruction (upadeśa).
Kāśī is the implied locus of the liberation-teaching that follows in the Kāśīkhaṇḍa.
No specific ritual here; it introduces an upcoming explanation of the means/cause of liberation.