Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 72
तदास्य पंकजं हित्वा यूनां नेत्रालिमालया । न लतांतरमासेवि अप्यामोदप्रसूनयुक्
tadāsya paṃkajaṃ hitvā yūnāṃ netrālimālayā | na latāṃtaramāsevi apyāmodaprasūnayuk
اس کے چہرے کے کنول کو چھوڑ کر، نوجوانوں کی آنکھیں—بھونروں کی مالا—کسی اور بیل کا سہارا نہیں لیتیں، چاہے وہ خوشبودار پھولوں سے لدی ہوئی ہو۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Listener: Sages / internal ‘muni’ addressee
Scene: A maiden’s face like a lotus; the young men’s eyes are depicted as a swarm/garland of bees hovering only around that lotus, ignoring other flowering creepers.
FAQs
It illustrates the mind’s power of fixation; in the puranic frame, this becomes a prompt to transform fixation into unwavering devotion (ananya-bhakti).
Kāśī is the broader setting in the Kāśīkhaṇḍa, though no individual tirtha is named in this verse.
None.