Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 139
श्रुत्वाख्यानमिदं पुण्यं दक्षेश्वरसमुद्भवम् । नरो न लिप्यते पापैरपराधालयोपि हि
śrutvākhyānamidaṃ puṇyaṃ dakṣeśvarasamudbhavam | naro na lipyate pāpairaparādhālayopi hi
دکشیشور سے پیدا ہونے والی اس پُنیہ کتھا کو سن کر انسان گناہوں سے آلودہ نہیں ہوتا—اگرچہ وہ واقعی خطاؤں کا مسکن ہی کیوں نہ ہو۔
Skanda (deduced, phalaśruti style)
Tirtha: Dakṣeśvara (Dakṣa-īśvara)
Type: temple
Scene: A small assembly at a Kāśī shrine: a narrator recites the Dakṣeśvara account; listeners—some visibly remorseful—sit with bowed heads; a faint dark aura (sins) lifts like smoke and dissolves into light near a Śiva-liṅga.
FAQs
Śravaṇa of a holy Śaiva narrative purifies deeply; divine merit can override even entrenched wrongdoing.
The Dakṣeśvara tradition is situated within Kāśī’s sacred landscape in the Kāśīkhaṇḍa framework.
Śravaṇa—devotional listening to the sacred account—as a purifying practice.