Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 42
अगस्त्य उवाच । एतान्येव किमन्यानि महालिंगानि षण्मुख । निर्वाणकारणानीह यदि संति तदा वद
agastya uvāca | etānyeva kimanyāni mahāliṃgāni ṣaṇmukha | nirvāṇakāraṇānīha yadi saṃti tadā vada
อคัสตยะกล่าวว่า: โอ้ ษัณมุข (สกันทะ) มหาลึงค์มีเพียงเท่านี้หรือ ยังมีอื่นอีกในที่นี้—ลึงค์ที่เป็นเหตุแห่งนิรวาณ? หากมี ก็โปรดบอกข้าพเจ้า
Agastya
Tirtha: Kāśī — inquiry into additional mahāliṅgas
Type: kshetra
Listener: Skanda (Ṣaṇmukha)
Scene: Agastya, addressed as Kumbhaja earlier, now speaks: he leans forward in respectful curiosity, asking Skanda whether more mahāliṅgas exist—those that cause nirvāṇa.
FAQs
A sincere seeker asks for complete knowledge of the liberating sacred forms within the holy kṣetra.
Kāśī is implied as the ‘here’ where liberating mahāliṅgas are established.
No specific rite is prescribed; the verse requests instruction about additional liberating liṅgas.