Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 2
स्कंद उवाच । कथयामि महाबुद्धे यथा कलशसंभव । दुर्गा नामाभवद्देव्या यथा सेव्या च साधकैः
skaṃda uvāca | kathayāmi mahābuddhe yathā kalaśasaṃbhava | durgā nāmābhavaddevyā yathā sevyā ca sādhakaiḥ
سکند نے کہا: اے عظیم فہم والے، اے کلش سے پیدا ہونے والے اگستیہ! میں بیان کرتا ہوں کہ دیوی کا نام ‘درگا’ کیسے مشہور ہوا، اور سادھکوں کو کس طریقے سے اس کی عبادت و خدمت کرنی چاہیے۔
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Agastya (Kalaśa-sambhava)
Scene: Skanda, as divine teacher, addresses Agastya (the pot-born sage), announcing an explanation of how the Goddess came to be called Durgā and the correct way sādhakas should worship her.
FAQs
Seek the Goddess as the protective power who removes obstacles, and approach her worship as a disciplined sādhana.
The setting is the Kāśīkhaṇḍa (Kāśī/Varanasi sacred region), though this verse functions as a narrative preface rather than naming a specific tīrtha.
Only a general indication of proper worship by sādhakas is given here; detailed rites are not specified in this verse.