Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 18
भूर्लोकाच्च भुवर्लोको ब्रध्नावधिरुदाहृतः । आदित्यादाध्रुवं विप्र स्वर्लोक इति गीयते
bhūrlokācca bhuvarloko bradhnāvadhirudāhṛtaḥ | ādityādādhruvaṃ vipra svarloka iti gīyate
भूर्लोकाच्या वर भुवर्लोक असून तो ब्रध्न-प्रदेशापर्यंत सांगितला आहे; आणि हे विप्र, सूर्यापासून ध्रुवापर्यंतचा भाग ‘स्वर्लोक’ म्हणून गातात।
Skanda
Listener: Brāhmaṇa addressee (explicit ‘vipra’)
Scene: A layered sky: lower atmospheric band labeled Bhuvar, rising to a threshold ‘Bradhna’; above, a radiant solar disc marking the start of Svar, extending upward to Dhruva as the upper limit.
FAQs
Higher worlds are mapped as moral-spiritual horizons; dharmic living is implied as the path that aligns one with higher realms.
None; the verse defines loka-boundaries rather than praising a particular place like Kāśī.
No ritual instruction is given here.