Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 67
वृद्धकालावनीपाल तेनैव सुकृतेन च । मोक्षक्षेत्रमिदं प्राप्तो मुक्तिं प्राप्स्यस्यनुत्तमाम्
vṛddhakālāvanīpāla tenaiva sukṛtena ca | mokṣakṣetramidaṃ prāpto muktiṃ prāpsyasyanuttamām
ഹേ വൃദ്ധ ഭൂപാലാ, അതേ സുകൃതത്താൽ നീ ഈ മോക്ഷക്ഷേത്രത്തിൽ എത്തിച്ചേർന്നു; നീ അനുത്തമമായ മുക്തി പ്രാപിക്കും।
Skanda (deduced, Kāśīkhaṇḍa dialogue style)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Aged king (vṛddha-kāla-avanīpāla)
Scene: An aged king, leaning on a staff, stands at the threshold of Kāśī with a sage blessing him; the city’s light forms a gateway symbolizing ‘anuttamā mukti’.
FAQs
Good deeds mature into the highest opportunity: reaching a mokṣa-kṣetra and securing liberation beyond worldly rewards.
“This mokṣa-kṣetra” is the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s central claim—Kāśī as the supreme liberating sacred field.
No explicit rite; the focus is on sukṛta as the causal basis for arriving at the liberating sacred place.