Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 59
तानि मन्येऽत्र मार्गेण स्रवंत्यविरतं शिशो । स्रवंतीश्च चिकीर्षंति प्रतिकूल जलाः किल
tāni manye'tra mārgeṇa sravaṃtyavirataṃ śiśo | sravaṃtīśca cikīrṣaṃti pratikūla jalāḥ kila
اے بچے، میرا خیال ہے کہ یہ پانی اسی راستے پر مسلسل بہہ رہا ہے؛ اور بہتے ہوئے ایسا لگتا ہے جیسے یہ لہروں کے مخالف جانے کی خواہش رکھتا ہے۔
Unspecified in excerpt (Kāśīkhaṇḍa context: typically Skanda speaking to Agastya)
Tirtha: Gaṅgā in Kāśī (ghāṭa zone of Avimukta)
Type: ghat
Listener: a child (śiśu)
Scene: A parent and child pause at a Kāśī ghat, watching Gaṅgā waters stream endlessly; eddies appear to run ‘against’ the main current, suggesting the river’s sentient will.
FAQs
It evokes attentive contemplation of Kāśī’s sacred landscape, where even natural movement is portrayed as extraordinary and meaning-laden.
The broader setting is Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) in the Kāśīkhaṇḍa; this verse itself does not name a specific tīrtha.
None is stated in this verse.