Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 57
सुवर्णग्राहिणौ येन कर्णौ स्यातां च सुश्रुती । मौंजीबंधोप्यभूदस्य व्यतीतेब्देऽष्टमे हरे । ब्रह्मचर्याभिवृद्ध्यै यो ब्रह्मग्रहणहेतुकः
suvarṇagrāhiṇau yena karṇau syātāṃ ca suśrutī | mauṃjībaṃdhopyabhūdasya vyatītebde'ṣṭame hare | brahmacaryābhivṛddhyai yo brahmagrahaṇahetukaḥ
ಯಾವ ಸಂಸ್ಕಾರದಿಂದ ಕಿವಿಗಳು ಸುವರ್ಣಗ್ರಾಹ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತವೆ ಮತ್ತು ‘ಸುಶ್ರುತಿ’ (ಸದുപದೇಶ ಶ್ರವಣದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಪುಣ) ಆಗುತ್ತಾನೋ, ಓ ಹರಿ! ಅವನ ಮೌಂಜೀಬಂಧವೂ ಎಂಟನೇ ವರ್ಷ ಕಳೆದ ನಂತರವೇ ಆಯಿತು—ಇದು ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಚರ್ಯವೃದ್ಧಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ (ವೇದಾಧ್ಯಯನ) ಗ್ರಹಣಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣವಾದ ಕರ್ಮ।
Citragupta
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Hari (explicit vocative)
Scene: A solemn upanayana-adjacent moment: the boy receives the muñja girdle after the eighth year; a teacher figure stands ready with staff and sacred thread; the verse addresses ‘Hari’, elevating the rite into devotional discipline.
FAQs
Initiation into brahmacarya is portrayed as the gateway to disciplined life and sacred learning.
This verse does not name a tīrtha; it belongs to the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s broader Kāśī-centered dharma narrative.
Muñjībandha (sacred girdle tying), associated with upanayana and brahmacarya, is mentioned with an age marker (after the eighth year).