Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 77
तदुत्तरे मुने रुद्रश्तुःशृंगोस्ति भीषणः । त्रिपादस्तु द्विशीर्षा च हस्ताः स्युः सप्त एव हि
taduttare mune rudraśtuḥśṛṃgosti bhīṣaṇaḥ | tripādastu dviśīrṣā ca hastāḥ syuḥ sapta eva hi
त्याच्या उत्तरेस, हे मुने, तुःशृंग नावाचा एक भीषण रुद्र आहे। त्याला तीन पाय, दोन शिरे आणि निश्चयच सात हात आहेत॥
Skanda (deduced, Kāśīkhaṇḍa context: Skanda to Agastya)
Type: kshetra
Listener: muni (sage)
Scene: A fearsome Rudra named Tuḥśṛṅga stands to the north—three-footed, two-headed, seven-handed—radiating protective terror; the space feels like a charged threshold in Kāśī’s labyrinthine lanes.
FAQs
Kāśī is protected and sanctified by extraordinary Rudra-forms; their very presence marks the city as a charged sacred geography.
A northern spot within the Kāśī sacred circuit where the Rudra named Tuḥśṛṅga is situated.
No explicit rite is stated; the verse primarily maps the sacred presence of a Rudra-form by direction.