Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 33
लिंगे चानादिसंसिद्धे यद्वृत्तं तद्ब्रवीमि ते । इतिहासं महाश्चर्यं सर्वपापनिकृंतनम्
liṃge cānādisaṃsiddhe yadvṛttaṃ tadbravīmi te | itihāsaṃ mahāścaryaṃ sarvapāpanikṛṃtanam
اب میں تمہیں اُس اَنادی، خود قائم لِنگ کے بارے میں جو واقعہ ہوا وہ سناتا ہوں—یہ ایک نہایت حیرت انگیز مقدس حکایت ہے جو تمام گناہوں کو کاٹ دیتی ہے۔
Skanda
Tirtha: Ratneśa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Śiva, poised as narrator, turns to Devī and begins the wondrous origin-story; the Ratneśa liṅga appears timeless, emerging from light, while dark ‘sins’ are symbolically cut away like vines severed by a blade of radiance.
FAQs
Hearing sacred narratives of Kāśī’s ancient liṅgas is itself purifying and spiritually transformative.
The anādi-saṃsiddha Liṅga associated with Ratneśvara in Kāśī’s Avimukta tradition.
Śravaṇa (devout listening) to the itihāsa is implied as a sin-destroying practice.