Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 6
मालाकारवधूः काचित्काचिन्नापितसुंदरी । सूतिकर्मविचारज्ञा ऽपरा भैषज्यकोविदा
mālākāravadhūḥ kācitkācinnāpitasuṃdarī | sūtikarmavicārajñā 'parā bhaiṣajyakovidā
कोणी माळाकाराची वधू झाली, कोणी सुंदर नापित-स्त्री झाली; कोणी सूतिकर्मात निपुण होती, तर दुसरी औषधविद्येत कुशल होती।
Skanda (continuing narration)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Four vignettes: a garland-maker’s home with flowers; a barber-woman with grooming tools; a midwife attending a mother; a healer preparing herbs—each with a barely perceptible divine glow, set against Kāśī’s lanes and shrine silhouettes.
FAQs
Service-oriented roles (healing, caregiving, temple garlands) are portrayed as dharmic expressions within Kāśī’s sacred ecosystem.
Kāśī is implicitly glorified as a city where all strata of life and service can become vehicles of sanctity.
None; the verse lists professions/roles rather than a formal rite.