Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 96
अहं तेनोमया सार्धं दीक्षां संप्राप्य शांभवीम् । अर्चितः प्रत्यहं येन पूजिता णिकर्णिका
ahaṃ tenomayā sārdhaṃ dīkṣāṃ saṃprāpya śāṃbhavīm | arcitaḥ pratyahaṃ yena pūjitā ṇikarṇikā
उमेसह शांभवी दीक्षा प्राप्त करून तो मला प्रतिदिन अर्चितो; आणि त्याच्याच द्वारा मणिकर्णिकाही पूजिली जाते।
Skanda (deduced from Kāśīkhaṇḍa dialogue convention)
Tirtha: Maṇikarṇikā
Type: ghat
Listener: Implied interlocutor within Kāśīkhaṇḍa narration
Scene: Śiva speaking in first person, seated with Umā, bestowing Śāmbhavī dīkṣā; below, a devotee performs daily worship and salutes Maṇikarṇikā, linking initiation with tīrtha-sevā.
FAQs
Steady daily worship combined with Śaiva orientation (dīkṣā) is celebrated as ideal devotion at Kāśī’s sacred locus.
Maṇikarṇikā in Kāśī.
Śāmbhavī dīkṣā (initiation) is referenced, along with pratyaha (daily) arcana/pūjā.