दिवार्करश्मयस्तत्र प्रभां तन्वंति नातपम् । शशिनश्च न शीताय निशि द्योताय केवलम्
divārkaraśmayastatra prabhāṃ tanvaṃti nātapam | śaśinaśca na śītāya niśi dyotāya kevalam
وہاں سورج کی کرنیں صرف نور پھیلاتی ہیں، تپش نہیں؛ اور چاند بھی ٹھنڈک کے لیے نہیں، بلکہ محض رات میں روشنی دینے کے لیے چمکتا ہے۔
Skanda
Type: kshetra
Scene: A subterranean sky-vault or luminous canopy where sunbeams appear as soft gold rays without glare; moonlight is bright silver without frost; inhabitants move in ease amid glowing architecture.
Puranic realms are portrayed as ordered and wondrous; such beauty is still part of saṃsāric experience, implicitly pointing seekers toward the higher good promised by sacred tīrthas.
Indirectly, the Kāśī-khaṇḍa frames these cosmological descriptions to magnify the merit linked with Kāśī and tīrtha-dharma.
None is stated in this verse.