Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 90
एतास्तिस्रः प्रयत्नेन पूज्याः क्षेत्रनिवासिभिः । धनधान्यप्रदाश्चैताः पुत्रपौत्रप्रदा इमाः
etāstisraḥ prayatnena pūjyāḥ kṣetranivāsibhiḥ | dhanadhānyapradāścaitāḥ putrapautrapradā imāḥ
کاشی کے مقدس کھیتر میں رہنے والوں کو چاہیے کہ ان تینوں دیویوں کی پوری کوشش اور اخلاص سے پوجا کریں۔ یہ دولت اور اناج عطا کرتی ہیں اور بیٹے اور پوتے بھی بخشتی ہیں۔
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśīkṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Kāśī residents offering lamps, flowers, and cooked grain to three fierce yet benevolent goddesses in a small shrine; baskets of grain and coins symbolically present; the devīs’ ugra forms softened by blessing gestures.
FAQs
Devotional worship within Kāśī-kṣetra is presented as both dharmic and materially sustaining—supporting household prosperity and lineage.
Kāśī-kṣetra itself (Vārāṇasī), described as a sacred ‘field’ where resident devotees worship local goddess-forms.
Prayatnena pūjā—earnest worship of the three goddesses by residents of the sacred area.