Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 10
द्रष्टृत्वादि विहीनं च शब्दस्पर्शसमुज्झितम् । व्यपेतगंधरूपं च रसत्यक्तमदिङ्मुखम्
draṣṭṛtvādi vihīnaṃ ca śabdasparśasamujjhitam | vyapetagaṃdharūpaṃ ca rasatyaktamadiṅmukham
ते द्रष्टृत्वादी अवस्थांपासून रहित होते; शब्द-स्पर्शवर्जित; गंध-रूप लय पावलेले; रसत्यक्त—दिशा-परिचयहीन।
Skanda
Listener: Audience/sage
Scene: An abstract depiction of sense-withdrawal at cosmic scale: no ears, skin, nose, eyes, tongue—no directions; forms and fragrances evaporate into emptiness; the scene feels like a dissolving mandala of the senses.
FAQs
All sensory categories and even the sense of a perceiver dissolve—suggesting that ultimate reality (and the highest tīrtha teaching) lies beyond the senses.
None directly; it supports the cosmic preface to the Avimukta/Kāśī account.
None.