Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 73
लक्ष्मांतरं समाचक्ष्व द्विजबोधकरं प्रसूः । येन विज्ञाय तं विप्रं त्यजेयमपि कंठगम्
lakṣmāṃtaraṃ samācakṣva dvijabodhakaraṃ prasūḥ | yena vijñāya taṃ vipraṃ tyajeyamapi kaṃṭhagam
اے ماں! وہ امتیازی نشان بتا دو جس سے برہمن کی پہچان ہو؛ اسے جان کر میں اپنے گلے میں اٹکے ہوئے کو بھی چھوڑ دوں گا۔
Garuda (Tārkṣya/Pakṣīndra), addressing his mother Vinatā
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya (frame) / within episode: Garuḍa addressing Vinatā
Scene: A young Garuḍa, troubled, asks his mother Vinatā for the defining sign of a brāhmaṇa, implying someone is caught in his throat; the scene is intimate, didactic, and tense.
FAQs
Dharma requires discerning and honoring a brāhmaṇa; even urgent personal discomfort should not lead to harming the righteous.
The broader setting is Kāśī-khaṇḍa (Vārāṇasī/Kāśī-māhātmya), though this verse itself is a dharmic dialogue episode rather than a direct tirtha description.
No explicit ritual is prescribed here; the focus is ethical discernment and restraint in action.