Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 43
कंदुकेश्वर नामापि श्रुत्वा वृजिनसंततिः । क्षिप्रं क्षयमवाप्नोति तमः प्राप्योष्णगुं यथा
kaṃdukeśvara nāmāpi śrutvā vṛjinasaṃtatiḥ | kṣipraṃ kṣayamavāpnoti tamaḥ prāpyoṣṇaguṃ yathā
សូម្បីតែគ្រាន់តែបានស្តាប់នាម “កន្ទុគេឝ្វរៈ” ក៏ខ្សែសង្វាក់បាបដែលបន្តបន្ទាប់ នឹងរលាយបាត់យ៉ាងឆាប់រហ័ស ដូចភាពងងឹតរលាយពេលជួបកម្តៅ និងពន្លឺ។
Narrative voice (contextually Skanda in Kāśīkhaṇḍa dialogue)
Tirtha: Kandukeśvara (nāma-māhātmya)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Brāhmaṇa interlocutor
Scene: A listener hears ‘Kandukeśvara’ from a sage; a dark chain symbolizing sin snaps and dissolves as a sunlike warmth and light spreads, echoing the simile of darkness vanishing before heat and radiance.
FAQs
Divine names are purifying in themselves; remembrance and hearing can uproot long-standing sin-impressions.
Kandukeśvara in Kāśī, whose very name is proclaimed as purificatory.
Nāma-śravaṇa—hearing (and by extension repeating) the sacred name Kandukeśvara.