Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 67
न जाने त्वथ किं वृत्तं काहं क्वाहं स चाथ कः । तं निर्जिगमिषुं सख्यो यावद्धर्तुं प्रसारितः
na jāne tvatha kiṃ vṛttaṃ kāhaṃ kvāhaṃ sa cātha kaḥ | taṃ nirjigamiṣuṃ sakhyo yāvaddhartuṃ prasāritaḥ
پھر مجھے معلوم نہ رہا کہ کیا ہوا—میں کون ہوں، کہاں ہوں، اور وہ بھی کون ہے۔ جب وہ جانے کو تھا، اے سہیلیو، میں نے ایک پل کے لیے اسے روکنے کو ہاتھ بڑھایا۔
Skanda (narrating within Kāśīkhaṇḍa context, typically to Agastya)
Listener: sakhyaḥ (female companions)
Scene: A woman, disoriented, reaching out with an extended hand as a figure turns to leave; her companions watch, concerned, in a corridor opening toward the river-city.
FAQs
Attachment can cause confusion and loss of self-possession; the text dramatizes the need for steadiness and clarity in devotion.
Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) is the overarching sacred landscape of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa, even when the verse focuses on personal narrative.
None is directly prescribed here; it is a narrative moment emphasizing emotion and longing.