Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 65
मम मूर्तिर्भवान्सूर्य सर्वज्ञो भव सर्वगः । सर्वेषां महसां राशिः सर्वेषां सर्वकर्मवित्
mama mūrtirbhavānsūrya sarvajño bhava sarvagaḥ | sarveṣāṃ mahasāṃ rāśiḥ sarveṣāṃ sarvakarmavit
“O Sūrya, ikaw ang aking sariling anyo. Maging ganap na nakaaalam; maging laganap sa lahat. Maging tipong-yaman ng liwanag para sa lahat, at tagabatid ng mga gawa ng lahat.”
Śiva (Devadeva)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Gaṅgā-sandhyā context)
Type: ghat
Listener: Sūrya (addressed directly)
Scene: Śiva addresses Sūrya, visually merging iconographies: solar disc behind Śiva, rays forming a liṅga-like aureole; Sūrya as radiant charioteer-form receiving empowerment to be all-knowing and all-pervading.
FAQs
Cosmic functions (like the Sun’s radiance) are framed as manifestations of Śiva, integrating devotion with sacred cosmology.
Indirectly Kāśī, as the narrative setting where stotra, darśana, and boons unfold in the Kāśī Khaṇḍa.
No prescription; it is a divine empowerment (vara) granted to Sūrya.