Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 80
कृतकृत्यमिवात्मानं ततो मत्वा स विघ्नजित् । विधाय बहुधात्मानं काश्यां स्थितिमवाप च
kṛtakṛtyamivātmānaṃ tato matvā sa vighnajit | vidhāya bahudhātmānaṃ kāśyāṃ sthitimavāpa ca
ਫਿਰ ਵਿਘਨਜਿਤ ਨੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਆਪ ਨੂੰ ਕ੍ਰਿਤਕ੍ਰਿਤ੍ਯ ਸਮਝਿਆ। ਉਹ ਅਨੇਕ ਰੂਪ ਧਾਰ ਕੇ ਕਾਸ਼ੀ ਵਿਚ ਨਿਵਾਸ-ਸਥਾਨ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕਰ ਬੈਠਾ।
Narrator (Skanda, in Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and sages (frame)
Scene: Vighnajit stands at a Kāśī crossroads and multiplies into many identical forms spreading through lanes, ghats, and palace corridors, as if occupying the city’s very breath.
FAQs
Kāśī is portrayed as a divinely inhabited realm where sacred powers establish enduring presence for the world’s welfare.
Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) itself is foregrounded as the holy locus.
None directly; it explains the theological basis for Kāśī’s sanctity—divine residence.