Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 10
प्रद्युम्नाय नमस्तुभ्यमनिरुद्धाय ते नमः । नमः कंसविनाशाय नमश्चाणूरमर्दिने
pradyumnāya namastubhyamaniruddhāya te namaḥ | namaḥ kaṃsavināśāya namaścāṇūramardine
பிரத்யும்னருக்கு வணக்கம், அனிருத்தருக்கு வணக்கம். கம்சனை அழித்தவருக்கு வணக்கம், சாணூரனை மடக்கியவருக்கு வணக்கம்॥
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Avimukta-kṣetra (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A devotee in Kāśī offers añjali while visualizing Kṛṣṇa’s youthful heroism—Kaṃsa’s fall and Cāṇūra’s defeat—within a sanctified ghāṭa setting.
FAQs
The Lord protects devotees by uprooting tyrannical adharma, both outwardly and within the heart.
Kāśī is the textual setting; the verse itself remembers Kṛṣṇa’s līlā rather than a named tīrtha.
None; it is praise meant for devotional recitation.