Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 47
तत्र ये पापकर्तारस्तेषां शास्ता त्वमेव हि । शुभाशुभं न तत्कर्म चित्रगुप्तो लिखिष्यति
tatra ye pāpakartārasteṣāṃ śāstā tvameva hi | śubhāśubhaṃ na tatkarma citragupto likhiṣyati
وہاں جو گناہ کرنے والے ہیں، ان کے سزا دینے والا تو ہی ہے؛ اور اس دھام میں چترگپت ان اعمال کو نہ نیک لکھے گا نہ بد۔
Śiva (deduced)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Kālarāja / Yama
Scene: A symbolic scene: Citragupta closes his ledger outside Kāśī’s boundary while Yama stands at the city gate as sole adjudicator; Kāśī glows within, suggesting a different law of grace and discipline.
FAQs
Kāśī is portrayed as a unique sacred realm where Bhairava administers discipline and karmic accounting is treated as exceptional.
Kāśī, described as operating under Bhairava’s direct governance.
None explicitly; the verse concerns the moral-judicial order (śāsana) within Kāśī.