Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 30
अलं तप्त्वा महाभाग प्रसन्नोस्मि शुभव्रत । निशम्य शमनश्चेति दृष्ट्वा मां प्रणनाम ह
alaṃ taptvā mahābhāga prasannosmi śubhavrata | niśamya śamanaśceti dṛṣṭvā māṃ praṇanāma ha
“بس، اے صاحبِ نصیب اور نیک ورت والے! تپسیا کافی ہے؛ میں خوش ہوں۔” یہ سن کر شمن (یَم) نے مجھے دیکھا اور ادب سے سجدۂ تعظیم کیا۔
Skanda (deduced; reporting his own words and Yama’s response)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śamana/Dharmarāja (Yama)
Scene: The speaker declares satisfaction—‘Enough austerity’—and Śamana (Yama), hearing it, looks up and bows in reverence, marking the completion of the tapas episode.
FAQs
Divine grace acknowledges sincere discipline; humility naturally follows even in exalted beings when grace is received.
Kāśī is the implied sacred theater where tapas culminates in direct divine satisfaction.
No explicit ritual; the verse highlights vrata (holy vow) and sustained tapas as the spiritual discipline.