Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 28
किं बहूक्तेन देह्याज्ञां ममासाध्यं न किंचन । त्वत्पादबलमासाद्य कृतं विद्ध्यद्यचिंतितम्
kiṃ bahūktena dehyājñāṃ mamāsādhyaṃ na kiṃcana | tvatpādabalamāsādya kṛtaṃ viddhyadyaciṃtitam
اور کیا بہت کہوں؟ حکم عطا فرمائیے—میرے لیے کوئی کام ناممکن نہیں۔ آپ کے قدموں کی قوت کا سہارا پا کر جان لیجیے کہ آج ناقابلِ تصور بھی انجام پا گیا ہے۔
Same speaker; emphasizes reliance on the Lord’s feet (pāda-bala)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A powerful figure, now softened by devotion, asks for the Lord’s command; he touches or bows toward Śiva’s feet, while the battlefield energy subsides into a focused aura of surrender.
FAQs
Refuge in the Lord’s feet transforms human limitation; surrender (śaraṇāgati) is presented as the source of true capability.
The verse is devotional rather than topographical; it sits within the Kāśī-khaṇḍa’s larger praise of Kāśī.
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