Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 43
विश्वेशस्तोषणीयोत्र स्नानहोमजपादिभिः । अन्यत्र कोटिजप्येन यत्फलं प्राप्यते नरैः । अष्टोत्तरशतं जप्त्वा तदत्र समवाप्यते
viśveśastoṣaṇīyotra snānahomajapādibhiḥ | anyatra koṭijapyena yatphalaṃ prāpyate naraiḥ | aṣṭottaraśataṃ japtvā tadatra samavāpyate
Здесь, в Каши, следует умилостивлять Вишвешвару омовением, огненными подношениями (хома), джапой и подобными обрядами. Плод, который в иных местах люди обретают через крор повторений, здесь достигается одним лишь стократным восьмикратным — 108 — произнесением.
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī—Viśveśvara-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: At dawn on the Gaṅgā, a pilgrim completes snāna, then in the temple precinct performs a small homa with ghee offerings and sits for japa with a rudrākṣa mālā. A luminous aura around Viśveśvara suggests the ‘crore-japa’ fruit condensed into 108 beads.
FAQs
Sacred geography matters in Purāṇic dharma: in Kāśī, devotion to Viśveśvara yields accelerated spiritual fruit.
Kāśī, especially the sphere of Viśveśvara’s presence where worship becomes extraordinarily efficacious.
Propitiate Viśveśvara through snāna, homa, japa, etc.; 108 repetitions in Kāśī are said to equal a crore elsewhere.