Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 84
किं बहूक्तेन सुश्रोणि कृतंयेन व्रतं त्विदम् । व्रतानि तेन सर्वाणि कृतानि व्रतिना ध्रुवम्
kiṃ bahūktena suśroṇi kṛtaṃyena vrataṃ tvidam | vratāni tena sarvāṇi kṛtāni vratinā dhruvam
ഹേ സുശ്രോണി, അധികം പറയേണ്ടതെന്ത്? ഈ വ്രതം അനുഷ്ഠിച്ചവൻ നിശ്ചയമായും എല്ലാ വ്രതങ്ങളും അനുഷ്ഠിച്ചതായി തന്നെ കണക്കാക്കപ്പെടുന്നു।
Skanda (contextual attribution within Kāśīkhaṇḍa dialogues)
Listener: A addressed female interlocutor (‘suśroṇi’)
Scene: A concluding phala-śruti moment: a teacher-figure addressing a noble woman (‘suśroṇi’), gesturing as if to say ‘enough said’, with Kāśī’s ghāṭas and a Śiva-liṅga shrine in the background.
FAQs
Some dharmic observances are praised as so potent that they are held equivalent to many other vows.
The verse is a concluding praise of a vow within the Kāśī Khaṇḍa context, not direct tīrtha-glorification.
It offers a doctrinal assurance: performing this one vow is deemed tantamount to performing all vows.