Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 16
व्यास उवाच । सूरः शूरोपि किं कुर्यात्प्रांतरे वर्त्मनिस्थितः । त्वरावानपि को रुद्धं मागर्मेको विलंघयेत्
vyāsa uvāca | sūraḥ śūropi kiṃ kuryātprāṃtare vartmanisthitaḥ | tvarāvānapi ko ruddhaṃ māgarmeko vilaṃghayet
ویاس نے کہا: “سورج بہادر بھی ہو تو اپنے راستے کے کنارے پر روک دیا جائے تو کیا کر سکتا ہے؟ تیز رفتار ہو کر بھی، بند کیے ہوئے راستے کو اکیلا کون پھلانگ سکتا ہے؟”
Vyāsa
Listener: Purāṇic audience in frame (ṛṣis)
Scene: Vyāsa narrates as a sage; in a parallel visual panel, Sūrya stands at the boundary of his course, halted before an impassable obstruction; the ‘road’ of the sky is depicted like a luminous track barred by the mountain.
FAQs
Power without proper means cannot break rightful constraints; dharma works through order, not mere force.
Kāśī is the overarching sacred geography of the Kāśī-khaṇḍa, though the verse itself is cosmological narration.
None; it explains the helplessness caused by obstruction.