Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 90
एवं कुर्वन्नरो जातु न दरिद्रो न दुःखभाक् । व्याधिभिर्मुच्यते घोरैरपिजन्मांतरार्जितैः
evaṃ kurvannaro jātu na daridro na duḥkhabhāk | vyādhibhirmucyate ghorairapijanmāṃtarārjitaiḥ
जो मनुष्य अशा प्रकारे आचरण करतो तो कधीही दरिद्री होत नाही, ना दुःखाचा भागी होतो. तो भयंकर व्याधींमधूनही मुक्त होतो, जरी त्या पूर्वजन्मार्जित असल्या तरीही.
Skanda (deduced, Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Agastya and/or assembled sages (contextual)
Scene: A devotee in Kāśī performs the prescribed observance with folded hands; behind him the Gaṅgā ghāṭas and a subtle aura of healing light dispels dark, disease-like shadows labeled as past-karma.
FAQs
Steady, dharmic worship is presented as a purifier of karmic burdens and a support for well-being.
The phalaśruti is embedded in the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī-centered teaching.
It refers back to the prescribed arghya-and-nāma recitation to Sūrya at the daily sandhyās.