Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 1
स्कन्द उवाच । ज्येष्ठेश्वरस्य परितो लिंगान्यन्यानि यानि तु । तानि ते कथयिष्यामि शृणु वातापितापन
skanda uvāca | jyeṣṭheśvarasya parito liṃgānyanyāni yāni tu | tāni te kathayiṣyāmi śṛṇu vātāpitāpana
സ്കന്ദൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ഹേ വാതാപിതാപനേ, ശ്രവിക്ക; ജ്യേഷ്ഠേശ്വരന്റെ ചുറ്റുമുള്ള മറ്റു പുണ്യലിംഗങ്ങളെ ഞാൻ നിനക്കു വിവരിച്ചുകൊള്ളാം।
Skanda
Tirtha: Jyeṣṭheśvara-parisara liṅga-saṅgraha (introductory)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Vātāpitāpana
Scene: Skanda, as narrator, begins enumerating the surrounding liṅgas of Jyeṣṭheśvara, evoking a sacred map of Kāśī with clustered shrines and water-bodies.
FAQs
Sacred places in Kāśī are interconnected; learning and honoring the network of liṅgas around a principal shrine is itself a form of devotion.
The area surrounding Jyeṣṭheśvara in Kāśī (Varanasi), introducing its associated liṅgas.
A preparatory instruction: attentive listening to the māhātmya describing the liṅgas around Jyeṣṭheśvara.