Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 37
तीर्थानि यानि लोकेस्मिञ्जंतूनामघहान्यहो । तानि सर्वाणि शुद्ध्यर्थं काशीमायांति नित्यशः
tīrthāni yāni lokesmiñjaṃtūnāmaghahānyaho | tāni sarvāṇi śuddhyarthaṃ kāśīmāyāṃti nityaśaḥ
ഈ ലോകത്തിൽ ജീവികളുടെ പാപം അകറ്റുന്ന എല്ലാ തീർത്ഥങ്ങളും—സ്വന്തം ശുദ്ധിക്കായി നിത്യവും കാശിയിലേക്കു വരുന്നു.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī (as tīrtha-sāra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: Personified tīrthas—rivers, lakes, and sacred fords—arrive as luminous beings carrying water-pots, bowing at Kāśī’s ghāṭas to bathe in Gaṅgā and receive renewed purity.
FAQs
Kāśī is presented as the supreme tīrtha whose sanctity surpasses other pilgrimage places.
Kāśī, described as the gathering-place and purifier even of other tīrthas.
No explicit ritual; the verse supports the practice of pilgrimage to Kāśī for purification.