Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 37
आवयोरंतरं कोसौ बिभृयात्पुरुषाकृतिम् । विधिः संभावयेद्यावत्तावत्स हि विलोकितः
āvayoraṃtaraṃ kosau bibhṛyātpuruṣākṛtim | vidhiḥ saṃbhāvayedyāvattāvatsa hi vilokitaḥ
“आपल्या दोघांच्या मधल्या या अवकाशात कोण पुरुषाकार धारण करील?”—असा विचार विधाता ब्रह्मा जितका वेळ करीत राहिला, तितकाच वेळ तो त्या अद्भुत दृश्याकडे पाहत राहिला।
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa typically Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Avimukta-Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis/seekers
Scene: Brahmā, poised between authority and bewilderment, stares upward into the radiant interspace, lips parted as if questioning; the central light holds a faint anthropomorphic outline.
FAQs
The finite intellect is stunned before the Infinite; divine manifestation exceeds ordinary categories.
The episode belongs to Kāśī-māhātmya, reinforcing Kāśī as the sphere of Śiva’s direct sovereignty.
None; the verse is contemplative and narrative.