Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 130
विधाय क्षेत्रसंन्यासं ये वसंतीह मानवाः । जीवन्मुक्तास्तु ते देवि तेषां विघ्नं हराम्यहम्
vidhāya kṣetrasaṃnyāsaṃ ye vasaṃtīha mānavāḥ | jīvanmuktāstu te devi teṣāṃ vighnaṃ harāmyaham
اے دیوی! جو لوگ اس مقدس کھیتر کے لیے سنیاس اختیار کرکے یہاں رہتے ہیں، وہ جیتے جی مکتی پاتے ہیں؛ میں خود ان کی رکاوٹیں دور کرتا ہوں۔
Śiva (likely, addressing Devī; inferred from vocative 'devi' and first-person promise)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (explicit: 'devi')
Scene: A renunciant dwelling in Kāśī—simple cloth, kamaṇḍalu—performing dawn worship; unseen obstacles dissolve as Śiva’s protective gaze falls, while Devī is addressed as witness.
FAQs
Life in Kāśī with wholehearted renunciation toward the kṣetra is portrayed as a direct path to jīvanmukti, supported by divine protection.
The Kāśī-kṣetra as a whole, revered as a liberating sacred field.
Kṣetra-saṃnyāsa—adopting a renunciant orientation specifically tied to residing in the holy field (kṣetra) of Kāśī.