Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 1
स्कंद उवाच । अन्यान्यपि च लिंगानि कथयामि महामुने । अमृतेशमुखादीनि यन्नामाप्यमृतप्रदम्
skaṃda uvāca | anyānyapi ca liṃgāni kathayāmi mahāmune | amṛteśamukhādīni yannāmāpyamṛtapradam
ಸ್ಕಂದನು ಹೇಳಿದರು—ಮಹಾಮುನಿಯೇ! ಅಮೃತೇಶ ಮೊದಲಾದ ಇನ್ನಿತರ ಲಿಂಗಗಳನ್ನೂ ನಾನು ವರ್ಣಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ; ಅವುಗಳ ನಾಮಮಾತ್ರವೂ ಅಮೃತಸಮಾನ ಮೋಕ್ಷವನ್ನು ನೀಡುತ್ತದೆ।
Skanda
Tirtha: Amṛteśa (first in the forthcoming series)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahāmuni
Scene: Skanda, radiant and youthful, addresses a great sage in an āśrama-like setting, beginning a new enumeration of Kāśī liṅgas; the word ‘Amṛteśa’ is visually suggested by a nectar pot (amṛta-kalaśa) near a liṅga shrine vignette.
FAQs
In Kāśī, even remembrance and naming of Śiva’s Liṅgas is portrayed as spiritually transformative and life-transcending.
The discourse introduces Kāśī’s Liṅgas, explicitly beginning with Amṛteśa.
Implicitly, nāma-smaraṇa (recitation/remembering the name) is praised as conferring amṛta-like merit.