Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 54
त्वया यथा समाकर्णि तदुत्संगनिवासिना । तथा कथय षड्वक्त्र तत्क्षेत्रं मेऽतिरोचते
tvayā yathā samākarṇi tadutsaṃganivāsinā | tathā kathaya ṣaḍvaktra tatkṣetraṃ me'tirocate
जसे तू तिच्या मांडीवर निवास करणाऱ्या (शिव) कडून ऐकलेस, तसेच सांग, हे षड्वक्त्र; ते क्षेत्र मला अत्यंत रुचते।
Agastya
Tirtha: Avimukta (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and other sages (frame implied)
Scene: Agastya, eager for Kāśī’s kṣetra-kathā, addresses Skanda as Ṣaḍvaktra, requesting an exact retelling of what Skanda heard from Śiva in Pārvatī’s lap-presence.
FAQs
Sacred place-glory is best received as faithfully transmitted teaching, not as invention—śruti-like fidelity to the lineage.
Avimukta-kṣetra of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī).
None explicitly; the focus is on accurate narration of the māhātmya.