Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 47
क्षेत्रं प्रदक्षिणीकृत्य राजसूयफलं लभेत् । तत्र श्राद्धप्रदातुश्च मुच्यंते प्रपितामहाः
kṣetraṃ pradakṣiṇīkṛtya rājasūyaphalaṃ labhet | tatra śrāddhapradātuśca mucyaṃte prapitāmahāḥ
ਖੇਤਰ ਦੀ ਪ੍ਰਦਕਸ਼ਿਣਾ ਕਰਨ ਨਾਲ ਰਾਜਸੂਯ ਯਜ੍ਞ ਦਾ ਫਲ ਮਿਲਦਾ ਹੈ। ਅਤੇ ਜੋ ਉੱਥੇ ਸ਼੍ਰਾਦ੍ਹ ਅਰਪਣ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ, ਉਸ ਦੇ ਪਿਤ੍ਰ-ਪ੍ਰਪਿਤਾਮਹ ਵੀ ਬੰਧਨ ਤੋਂ ਮੁਕਤ ਹੋ ਜਾਂਦੇ ਹਨ।
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Avimukta Kṣetra (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: A devotee performs a full circumambulation of Kāśī’s sacred boundary, passing ghats, shrines, and banyan trees; later, a śrāddha rite is offered with piṇḍa and water-libations, while subtle ancestral figures are shown being uplifted.
FAQs
Pilgrimage acts in Kāśī—especially pradakṣiṇā and śrāddha—carry extraordinary merit and benefit one’s lineage.
The Avimukta sacred region of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) as a whole, approached through kṣetra-pradakṣiṇā and śrāddha.
Kṣetra-pradakṣiṇā (circumambulation of the holy area) and performing śrāddha (ancestral offerings) there.