Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 74
सवर्षाणां शतं कुक्षौ भवस्य परितो भ्रमन् । न तस्य ददृशे रंध्रं शुचे रंध्रं खलो यथा
savarṣāṇāṃ śataṃ kukṣau bhavasya parito bhraman | na tasya dadṛśe raṃdhraṃ śuce raṃdhraṃ khalo yathā
بھَو کے پیٹ میں وہ سو دیوی برس تک چاروں طرف بھٹکتا رہا، مگر اسے وہاں کوئی شگاف نہ ملا؛ جیسے کوئی خبیث آدمی پاکیزہ شخص میں عیب ڈھونڈتا ہے۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Avimukta (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis (frame)
Scene: Śukra circles endlessly within a vast luminous abdomen-space of Bhava for ‘a hundred divine years’, searching for an exit; the scene overlays a moral allegory: a dark figure peering for stains on a spotless cloth/person.
FAQs
Purity and divine integrity are without cracks; fault-finding is a mark of inner impurity, not of the one criticized.
The verse sits in the Kāśī Khaṇḍa frame; it teaches ethics through Śiva-centric imagery rather than naming a particular tīrtha.
None in this verse.