Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 71
पंचास्यस्त्वथ पंचास्यं मुष्ट्या मूर्धन्यताडयत् । स च तेनैव रूपेण कक्षानिष्पेषणेन च
paṃcāsyastvatha paṃcāsyaṃ muṣṭyā mūrdhanyatāḍayat | sa ca tenaiva rūpeṇa kakṣāniṣpeṣaṇena ca
تب پانچ چہروں والے پروردگار نے پانچ چہروں والے دشمن کے سر پر مُکّے سے ضرب لگائی؛ اور اسی روپ سے، اور کمر کی اس کَسّی ہوئی دباؤ کے ساتھ بھی، دَیتیہ کے حملے کو پلٹ دیا۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa discourse commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Kāśī-māhātmya audience
Scene: Śiva as the five-faced Pañcāsya delivers a decisive fist-strike to the demon’s head, countering the crushing waist-hold; the same manifested form becomes the instrument of reversal and restoration.
FAQs
The Lord meets adharma on its own ground and overcomes it; divine power is not limited by the opponent’s disguises.
Kāśī, through a local mythic confrontation that establishes Śiva’s guardianship over the sacred area.
None; this is a narrative verse within the sthala-mahātmya episode.