Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 12
वियच्च तावदुपरि विस्तारपरिमंडलम् । योजनानां च नियुते भूमेर्भानुर्व्यवस्थितः
viyacca tāvadupari vistāraparimaṃḍalam | yojanānāṃ ca niyute bhūmerbhānurvyavasthitaḥ
اور اس زمینی حد کے اوپر آسمان کا پھیلاؤ ایک وسیع دائرہ نما گنبد کی مانند ہے؛ اور بھانو (سورج) زمین سے دس ہزار یوجن کے فاصلے پر قائم ہے۔
Skanda
Listener: vipra (brāhmaṇa)
Scene: A circular firmament like a dome above the earth; the sun depicted as stationed at a measured height, with concentric distance markers (yojana bands) in a schematic sacred diagram.
FAQs
The cosmos is described as structured and intelligible; such order encourages awe and dharmic humility before the Creator’s arrangement.
No single tīrtha is named; the passage supports the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s larger sacred worldview rather than a local shrine-description.
None; the verse is descriptive (cosmological) rather than prescriptive (ritual).