Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 25
वेदा इव सदभ्यस्ताः समये वा यथांबुदाः । ब्राह्मणेभ्यो यथा दत्ताः श्रद्धयार्था महापदि
vedā iva sadabhyastāḥ samaye vā yathāṃbudāḥ | brāhmaṇebhyo yathā dattāḥ śraddhayārthā mahāpadi
وہ یوں سہولت سے اٹھ کھڑے ہوئے جیسے مسلسل اَبھ्यास سے وید ظاہر ہو جاتے ہیں؛ جیسے اپنے موسم میں بادل جمع ہو جاتے ہیں؛ اور جیسے بڑے بحران میں شردھا سے برہمنوں کو دیا ہوا دھن نجات بخش پھل دیتا ہے۔
Skanda (narrator; concluding similes)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dānava-pati (implied audience within the scene)
Scene: A didactic flourish: revived warriors compared to (a) Vedas emerging through constant study, (b) clouds assembling in season, (c) wealth given with faith to brāhmaṇas in a great crisis yielding saving fruit—three symbolic panels around the central revival.
FAQs
Steady practice, timely order, and faith-filled charity are depicted as forces that reliably produce beneficial results.
No specific tīrtha is named; the verse offers general dharmic similes within the Kāśīkhaṇḍa context of Kāśī.
It commends dāna—giving wealth to Brāhmaṇas with śraddhā, especially in times of great distress.