Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 27
तदेव वृत्तं ध्यायंती निधनं याति कालतः । दिव्यरूपधरा सेह जायते दिव्य भोगभाक्
tadeva vṛttaṃ dhyāyaṃtī nidhanaṃ yāti kālataḥ | divyarūpadharā seha jāyate divya bhogabhāk
त्याच वृत्तांताचे चिंतन करत करत ती काळानुसार निधन पावली; आणि मग दिव्यरूप धारण करून येथे जन्मली व दिव्य भोगांची भागीदार झाली।
Skanda (deduced for Kāśīkhaṇḍa narration to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dvija interlocutor (contextual)
Scene: A transition tableau: the woman in meditation, then a luminous departure (death), followed by her reappearance in radiant divine form amid celestial pleasures—suggested as a triptych within Kāśī’s sacred aura.
FAQs
Inner contemplation and accumulated impressions (saṃskāras) are depicted as shaping the next birth and the quality of one’s experience.
The larger discourse belongs to Kāśī-khaṇḍa’s glorification of sacred dharma, though this verse focuses on loka and rebirth rather than a named tīrtha.
No explicit ritual is stated; the verse highlights contemplation (dhyāna) and its karmic consequence.