Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 56
तेषूड्डीनेषु दैत्येषु शतकोटिमितेषु च । निर्जगाम ततः सा तु कालरात्रिर्नभोध्वगा
teṣūḍḍīneṣu daityeṣu śatakoṭimiteṣu ca | nirjagāma tataḥ sā tu kālarātrirnabhodhvagā
ശതകോടി ദൈത്യർ ഉയർത്തി ചിതറിക്കളയപ്പെട്ടപ്പോൾ, ആകാശമാർഗ്ഗഗാമിനിയായ ആ കാലരാത്രി സ്വയം പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെട്ടു।
Skanda (deduced for Kāśīkhaṇḍa context: Skanda narrating to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and the Naimiṣāraṇya sages
Scene: After a hundred-crore daityas are flung and scattered, Kālarātri appears—dark, vast, and airborne—moving across the sky like embodied night, the battlefield below reduced to drifting, defeated fragments.
FAQs
When adharma swells in number, the divine manifests in appropriate form to restore balance—especially in a sanctified kṣetra.
Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) is the overarching holy geography of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa.
None; it narrates the emergence of Kālarātri.