Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 120
शब्दब्रह्म नमस्तुभ्यं परब्रह्म नमोस्तुते । नमो वेदांतवेद्याय वेदानां पतये नमः
śabdabrahma namastubhyaṃ parabrahma namostute | namo vedāṃtavedyāya vedānāṃ pataye namaḥ
اے شبدبرہمن! آپ کو نمسکار؛ اے پربرہمن! آپ کو نمोستُتے۔ اے وہ جسے ویدانت کے ذریعے جانا جاتا ہے، آپ کو سلام؛ اے ویدوں کے مالک، آپ کو نمسکار۔
Brahmā (in praise of Śiva)
Tirtha: Kāśī (mokṣa-kṣetra; Vedānta-vedya Śiva)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Purāṇic audience within Kāśī-khaṇḍa dialogue frame
Scene: Śiva envisioned simultaneously as a stream of Vedic sound (mantra radiance) and as silent, boundless Parabrahman; the hymn bridges sound and silence.
FAQs
Śiva is both the revealed divine in scripture (Śabdabrahman) and the transcendent Absolute (Parabrahman), realized through Vedānta.
Kāśī, famed in the Skanda Purāṇa as a mokṣa-kṣetra where Vedāntic realization is especially extolled.
No explicit ritual; it frames study/hearing of Veda–Vedānta and devotional salutations as spiritually efficacious.