Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 73
दुष्कृतानि विधायेह बहिः पंचत्वमागताः । तेषां गतिं प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणुत द्विजसत्तमाः
duṣkṛtāni vidhāyeha bahiḥ paṃcatvamāgatāḥ | teṣāṃ gatiṃ pravakṣyāmi śṛṇuta dvijasattamāḥ
جو یہاں بداعمالیاں کر کے مقدّس حد سے باہر مر کر پانچ عناصر میں مل گئے، اُن کی گتی (انجام) میں بیان کروں گا—سنو، اے بہترین دِویجوں۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda speaking to Agastya and sages)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (with emphasis on ‘bahis’ death)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvija-sattamas
Scene: A teacher-narrator addressing assembled brāhmaṇas on a ghat, gesturing toward the city boundary; a funeral procession moving outward beyond the sacred ring, foreshadowing the ‘gati’ to be explained.
FAQs
Where one dies relative to the sacred boundary is portrayed as spiritually significant; the Purāṇa maps karma to sacred geography.
Kāśī and its kṣetra-maryādā (holy boundary).
None; the verse introduces an exposition on post-death outcomes.