Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 63
स्कंद उवाच । प्रसंगतो मयैतानि तीर्थानि कथितानि ते । भूमौ तिलांतरायां यत्तत्र तीर्थान्यनेशः
skaṃda uvāca | prasaṃgato mayaitāni tīrthāni kathitāni te | bhūmau tilāṃtarāyāṃ yattatra tīrthānyaneśaḥ
ಸ್ಕಂದನು ಹೇಳಿದರು—ಪ್ರಸಂಗವಶದಿಂದ ನಾನು ನಿನಗೆ ಈ ತೀರ್ಥಗಳನ್ನು ಹೇಳಿದೆನು. ಹೇ ಪ್ರಭೋ, ಭೂಮಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ‘ತಿಲಾಂತರಾಯಾ’ ಎಂಬ ಆ ಪ್ರದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಅನೇಕಾನೇಕ ತೀರ್ಥಗಳಿವೆ.
Skanda
Tirtha: Tilāntarā (tīrtha-cluster)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Agastya (Kalaśodbhava)
Scene: Skanda, as narrator, gestures to an expanse of Kāśī’s sacred ground called Tilāntarā, implying countless unseen tīrthas spread like a sacred map.
FAQs
Kāśī is framed as a dense sacred landscape—its holiness is not isolated to one spot but spread through innumerable tīrthas.
Tilāntarā is referenced as a locale containing innumerable tīrthas, within the Kāśī sacred geography.
No specific rite is prescribed here; it functions as a summary/transition emphasizing the abundance of tīrthas.