Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 71
अनल्पोत्कलितं चेतः पुनस्तत्संगमाशया । प्राणानां मे यियासूनामेकमेव महौषधम्
analpotkalitaṃ cetaḥ punastatsaṃgamāśayā | prāṇānāṃ me yiyāsūnāmekameva mahauṣadham
اس سے پھر ملاقات کی امید میں میرا دل بار بار موجزن ہوا۔ جب میری سانسیں رخصت ہونے کو تھیں، تو وہی امید میرے لیے عظیم دوا بن گئی۔
Skanda (narrating within Kāśīkhaṇḍa context, typically to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A pale, love-stricken woman in Kāśī speaks of hope as her only medicine; companions gather close, lamplight flickers, the distant sound of Gaṅgā and temple bells frames her trembling resolve.
FAQs
Hope directed toward reunion becomes life-sustaining; spiritually, faith and remembrance can steady the prāṇas in distress.
Kāśī is the textual setting; the verse supports the Kāśī-kṣetra Māhātmya by depicting heightened devotional states.
No explicit ritual is given here.