Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 67
इति ते कथिता विप्र लोकानां च परिस्थितिः । इदानीं कथयिष्यावस्तवनिर्वाण कारणम्
iti te kathitā vipra lokānāṃ ca paristhitiḥ | idānīṃ kathayiṣyāvastavanirvāṇa kāraṇam
ഹേ വിപ്രാ! ഇങ്ങനെ ലോകങ്ങളുടെ സ്ഥിതി ഞാൻ നിന്നോട് പറഞ്ഞു. ഇനി നിന്റെ നിർവാണം (മോക്ഷം) ലഭിക്കുന്ന കാരണമെൻ പറയാം।
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: vipra (brāhmaṇa)
Scene: A teacher-narrator addressing a brāhmaṇa listener, gesture of instruction; background hints of Kāśī—ghāṭas, temples, and the river—signaling the shift to liberation teaching.
FAQs
Liberation is not accidental; it has a discernible cause taught through sacred instruction (upadeśa).
Kāśī is the implied locus of the liberation-teaching that follows in the Kāśīkhaṇḍa.
No specific ritual here; it introduces an upcoming explanation of the means/cause of liberation.