स्मृतिमात्रपथंगतोपि यस्त्रिविध तापमपाकरोत्यलम् । स हि काशिवियोगतापितः स्वगतं किंचिदजल्पदित्यजः
smṛtimātrapathaṃgatopi yastrividha tāpamapākarotyalam | sa hi kāśiviyogatāpitaḥ svagataṃ kiṃcidajalpadityajaḥ
وہ جو محض یاد کے راستے میں قدم رکھتے ہی تین طرح کے دکھ پوری طرح دور کر دیتا ہے—وہی اَج (ازلی) رب، کاشی کی جدائی سے تپ کر، اپنے آپ سے کچھ کہہ بیٹھا۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Audience within Kāśī-khaṇḍa narration
Scene: Śiva, the Unborn, sits in contemplation; a faint vision of Kāśī’s ghats and Viśveśvara arises in his mind. Though he removes others’ threefold suffering by mere remembrance, he himself is pained by Kāśī-viraha and murmurs a soliloquy.
Remembrance of the Lord dispels the threefold afflictions, while Kāśī is exalted as so intimate to Śiva that its absence becomes the lone ‘cause’ of pain in the narrative.
Kāśī, explicitly named as the focus of separation.
A devotional discipline is implied: smṛti (remembrance) of the Lord as a means to overcome trividha-tāpa; no formal rite is specified.