Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 7
सर्पदष्टस्य संस्कारः कथं भवति चेति वै । तावत्स जीवन्नुत्तस्थौ सुप्तवच्चौपजंघनिः
sarpadaṣṭasya saṃskāraḥ kathaṃ bhavati ceti vai | tāvatsa jīvannuttasthau suptavaccaupajaṃghaniḥ
เขาครุ่นคิดว่า “ผู้ถูกงูกัดจะทำสังสการศพได้อย่างไรเล่า?” ครั้นคิดดังนั้นอยู่ ในขณะนั้นเอง อุปชังคณีก็ลุกขึ้นทั้งเป็น ประหนึ่งตื่นจากนิทรา
Skanda (narration)
Tirtha: Svargadvāra-Mahāśmaśāna (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka-ādi ṛṣis
Scene: The sage, worried about how to perform rites for a snake-bitten man, pauses in thought; suddenly the ‘corpse’ sits up, eyes opening like one waking, ash swirling around, liṅga glowing quietly nearby.
FAQs
Kāśī’s Śaiva sanctity is portrayed as so potent that even death-like states can be reversed by proximity to Śiva’s sacred presence.
The Mahāśmaśāna/Svargadvāra zone of Kāśī, in association with a nearby Liṅga.
It references saṃskāra in the sense of funerary rites (antyeṣṭi), though no procedure is detailed.