Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 5
विलोक्याक्रीडमखिलं बहुप्रासादमंडितम् । बहुकुंडतडागं च शंभोस्तोषमुपागमत् । पदेपदे मुनीनां च जितकाल महाभियाम् । दृष्टोटजानि रम्याणि दुर्वासा विस्मितोभवत्
vilokyākrīḍamakhilaṃ bahuprāsādamaṃḍitam | bahukuṃḍataḍāgaṃ ca śaṃbhostoṣamupāgamat | padepade munīnāṃ ca jitakāla mahābhiyām | dṛṣṭoṭajāni ramyāṇi durvāsā vismitobhavat
संपूर्ण रम्य क्रीडावन पाहून—जे अनेक प्रासादांनी अलंकृत व अनेक कुंड-तळ्यांनी परिपूर्ण होते—दुर्वासांच्या अंतःकरणात शंभूप्रती परम तुष्टी उत्पन्न झाली। आणि पावलोपावली काळावर विजय मिळविणाऱ्या महाभाग मुनींची रम्य ओट्याजने पाहून ते विस्मित झाले।
Skanda
Tirtha: Ānandakānana (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Durvāsā surveys a wondrous sacred grove: many palaces, many ponds and tanks; at every step charming hermitages of great sages who have conquered time; his face shows astonishment and joy toward Śiva.
FAQs
Kāśī is depicted as both spiritually supreme and divinely beautiful—where perfected sages dwell and Śiva’s presence turns the land into a living tīrtha.
Śambhu’s Ānandakānana within Kāśī, characterized by kuṇḍas/taḍāgas and sages’ hermitages.
No direct prescription; the imagery implies tīrtha-darśana and reverent circumambulation through the sacred grove.