Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 12
यांति प्रदक्षिणीकृत्य ये भवंतं भवं विभो । भवंति तेषां कार्याणि पुरोभूतानि ते भयात्
yāṃti pradakṣiṇīkṛtya ye bhavaṃtaṃ bhavaṃ vibho | bhavaṃti teṣāṃ kāryāṇi purobhūtāni te bhayāt
जे प्रभु भव—हे विभो!—तुझी प्रदक्षिणा करून पुढे जातात, त्यांच्या कार्ये जणू तुझ्या प्रभावाच्या भयाने आधीच सिद्ध होऊन समोर येतात।
Skanda (deduced, Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)
Tirtha: Bhava-pradakṣiṇā in Kāśī (Viśveśvara precinct)
Type: ghat
Listener: Ṛṣis / internal audience
Scene: Devotees circumambulate Śiva with folded hands; ahead of them, personified ‘tasks’ run forward as if frightened, clearing the path—an allegory of vighnas fleeing Śiva’s majesty.
FAQs
Śiva-worship through pradakṣiṇā brings swift, almost effortless completion of rightful aims.
Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), where Śiva is central and temple-circumambulation is treated as highly meritorious.
Pradakṣiṇā—circumambulation of Śiva (Bhava)—as an efficacious devotional act.