Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 79
क्षेत्रे तृतीयावरणे क्षेत्ररक्षाकृतः सदा । ये विघ्नराजाः संतीह ते वक्तव्या मयाधुना
kṣetre tṛtīyāvaraṇe kṣetrarakṣākṛtaḥ sadā | ye vighnarājāḥ saṃtīha te vaktavyā mayādhunā
क्षेत्राच्या तिसऱ्या आवरणात ते सदैव क्षेत्ररक्षण करीत असतात। येथे जे ‘विघ्नराज’ आहेत, त्यांचे वर्णन मी आता करतो।
Skanda
Tirtha: Tṛtīya-āvaraṇa (Kāśī) – Vighna-rāja guardians
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pilgrimage audience
Scene: A narrator-sage gestures to a diagram of Kāśī’s third enclosure, where formidable yet benevolent ‘vighna-rājas’ stand guard at gateways, holding nooses and sweets, symbolizing controlled obstacles.
FAQs
Even ‘obstacle-lords’ are integrated into Kāśī’s protective dharma: cosmic forces are ordered to guard the sacred field.
Kāśī as kṣetra, specifically its tṛtīya-āvaraṇa (third protective circuit).
None directly; it introduces a forthcoming description of the vighna-rājas who guard the area.