Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 3
विरहानलशांतये तदा समलेपि त्रिपुरारिणापि यः । मलयोद्भव पंक एष स प्रतिपेदेह्यधुना पिपांसुताम्
virahānalaśāṃtaye tadā samalepi tripurāriṇāpi yaḥ | malayodbhava paṃka eṣa sa pratipedehyadhunā pipāṃsutām
വിരഹാഗ്നി ശമിപ്പാൻ ഒരിക്കൽ ത്രിപുരാരിയും (ശിവനും) ലേപിച്ച മലയോത്ഭവ ചന്ദനലേപം തന്നേ, ഇപ്പോൾ ഉണങ്ങി വീണ്ടും ഈർപ്പിനായി തൃഷ്ണിക്കുന്നതുപോലെ ആയിരിക്കുന്നു.
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī (implied as the true coolant)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A close-up symbolic scene: a bowl of sandal paste from Malaya, cracked and drying on a golden plate; Śiva, the Tripurāri, sits nearby with a feverish aura, the paste unable to cool him; the air itself seems thirsty for moisture.
FAQs
External comforts cannot fully cool the inner heat of separation from the supreme holy abode; Kāśī is implied as the true solace.
Kāśī is the implied focus through the motif of ‘separation from Kāśī’; the verse uses metaphor rather than naming a shrine.
None explicitly; sandal paste appears as symbolic cooling, not a stated rite.