Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 65
तत्रैकं जागरं कुर्याद्यस्मिन्कस्मिन्दिनेपि यः । उपोषितोर्चयेल्लिंगं स सर्वव्रतपुण्यभाक्
tatraikaṃ jāgaraṃ kuryādyasminkasmindinepi yaḥ | upoṣitorcayelliṃgaṃ sa sarvavratapuṇyabhāk
ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾರು ಯಾವ ದಿನವಾದರೂ ಒಂದು ರಾತ್ರಿ ಜಾಗರಣೆ ಮಾಡಿ, ಉಪವಾಸದಿಂದ ಲಿಂಗವನ್ನು ಅರ್ಚಿಸಿದರೆ, ಅವನು ಎಲ್ಲಾ ವ್ರತಗಳ ಪುಣ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಪಾಲುದಾರನಾಗುತ್ತಾನೆ।
Skanda
Tirtha: Mukti Maṇḍapa (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Traditional interlocutor (often Pārvatī)
Scene: Night in Mukti Maṇḍapa: devotee awake beside a Śiva-liṅga, offering bilva and water; rows of lamps; attendants chanting; the sky deep indigo; the sense of sustained wakeful devotion.
FAQs
Devotional discipline in Kāśī—fasting, vigil, and liṅga-pūjā—condenses the merit of many vratas into one act.
The sacred Kāśī precinct described in this adhyāya’s Maṇḍapa-māhātmya (the ‘there’ of the text).
Keeping one jāgara (night vigil), fasting (upavāsa), and worshipping the Śiva-liṅga.