Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 67
अतः परं प्रवक्ष्यामि गारी यात्रामनुत्तमाम् । शुक्लपक्षे तृतीयायां या यात्रा विष्वगृद्धिदा
ataḥ paraṃ pravakṣyāmi gārī yātrāmanuttamām | śuklapakṣe tṛtīyāyāṃ yā yātrā viṣvagṛddhidā
आता मी अनुपम गौरी-यात्रेचे वर्णन करतो. शुक्लपक्षातील तृतीयेच्या दिवशी केली जाणारी ही यात्रा सर्वतोमुखी समृद्धी व वृद्धी प्रदान करते.
Skanda (deduced; Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Gaurī-yātrā (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis / pilgrims-instruction audience
Scene: A narrator in Kāśī announces an ‘unsurpassed’ Gaurī-yātrā for Śukla-tṛtīyā; pilgrims prepare with vessels, flowers, and lamps, with the skyline of ghāṭas and temples behind.
FAQs
Timing and sacred geography unite: a specific tithi in Kāśī amplifies the fruit of devotion to Gaurī.
Kāśī as the setting for the Gaurī-yātrā, whose stations are detailed in the following verses.
Undertake the Gaurī-yātrā on Śukla-pakṣa Tṛtīyā (bright fortnight, third lunar day).