Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 48
काश्यां चतुर्दशैतानि महालिंगानि सुंदरि । इमानि मुक्तिहेतूनि लिंगान्यानंदकानने
kāśyāṃ caturdaśaitāni mahāliṃgāni suṃdari | imāni muktihetūni liṃgānyānaṃdakānane
ಸುಂದರಿಯೇ, ಕಾಶಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇವು ಹದಿನಾಲ್ಕು ಮಹಾಲಿಂಗಗಳು; ಆನಂದಕಾನನದಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಥಿತವಾದ ಇವು ಮೋಕ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣವಾದ ಲಿಂಗಗಳು।
Skanda
Tirtha: Caturdaśa Mahāliṅgāni of Kāśī in Ānandakānana
Type: kshetra
Listener: ‘सुंदरी’ (explicit vocative in verse) and the broader audience
Scene: A panoramic sacred map of Kāśī’s Ānandakānana showing fourteen shrine points glowing like stars, with a central axis leading toward liberation; a देवी (‘सुंदरी’) listens as the list is affirmed.
FAQs
Kāśī’s liberation-power is concretely embodied in specific liṅgas within Ānandakānana.
Ānandakānana, the blissful sacred grove/region within Kāśī, is directly named.
Implicit directive: approach and worship these fourteen mahāliṅgas as a path to mukti.