Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 63
अथवा कारणापेक्षस्त्र्यक्षस्त्वितरदेववत् । रंकमप्यनुगृह्णाति केवलं कारणं कृपा
athavā kāraṇāpekṣastryakṣastvitaradevavat | raṃkamapyanugṛhṇāti kevalaṃ kāraṇaṃ kṛpā
किंवा—इतर देवतांसारखा त्रिनेत्र प्रभू काही कारण पाहत असला, तरी तो दरिद्रालाही अनुग्रह करतो. तेथे एकमेव कारण करुणाच आहे.
Tvaṣṭṛ’s son (tvāṣṭraḥ)
Tirtha: Kāśī / Viśveśvara-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: sages
Scene: A contemplative figure seated on a ghat step, looking at the Ganga, reflecting on the three-eyed Lord’s compassion that reaches even the destitute; faint vision of Śiva’s third eye in the sky.
FAQs
Śiva’s anugraha ultimately rests on compassion, not on status; even the lowly can be uplifted.
The verse sits within Kāśī Khaṇḍa’s praise of Śiva’s grace, implicitly tied to Viśveśvara’s Kāśī.
None; the teaching is doctrinal—kṛpā is the decisive ‘cause’ of blessing.