स्कंद उवाच । ओंनमो गंगादेव्यै । ओंकाररूपिण्यजराऽतुलाऽनमताऽमृतस्रवा । अत्युदाराऽभयाऽशोकाऽलकनंदाऽमृताऽमला
skaṃda uvāca | oṃnamo gaṃgādevyai | oṃkārarūpiṇyajarā'tulā'namatā'mṛtasravā | atyudārā'bhayā'śokā'lakanaṃdā'mṛtā'malā
Sinabi ni Skanda: Pagpupugay kay Diyosa Gaṅgā. Siya na ang anyo ay Oṁ; walang-kupas at walang-kapantay; daluyang nagbubuhos ng amṛta sa mga yumuyukod. Lubhang mapagbigay, tagapagkaloob ng walang-takot at pag-alis ng dalamhati—Alakanandā, walang-kamatayan at walang-dungis.
Skanda
Tirtha: Gaṅgā (Kāśī-sannidhāna)
Type: ghat
Scene: Skanda as narrator offers a luminous hymn to Gaṅgā; the river appears as a radiant goddess arising from Oṁ, flowing past Kāśī’s ghāṭas with a nectar-like shimmer, granting fearlessness and removing sorrow.
Reverent surrender to Gaṅgā is portrayed as a direct encounter with purity and nectar-like grace—fear and sorrow are dispelled through devotion.
Gaṅgā in the Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) sacred landscape—praised as the purifying, nectar-flowing divine river central to Kāśī-māhātmya.
No explicit rite is commanded here; the verse emphasizes namaskāra (bowing/salutation) to Gaṅgā as a devotional act.
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