Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 82
स च चक्रं समागच्छद्दृष्ट्वा सस्मार शंकरम् । शंकरस्मरणाच्चक्रं मनाग्वक्रत्वमाप्य च । कंठमासाद्यवीरस्य सम्यग्जातं सुदर्शनम्
sa ca cakraṃ samāgacchaddṛṣṭvā sasmāra śaṃkaram | śaṃkarasmaraṇāccakraṃ manāgvakratvamāpya ca | kaṃṭhamāsādyavīrasya samyagjātaṃ sudarśanam
اور جب اس نے چکر کو اپنی طرف آتے دیکھا تو اس نے شنکر کا سمرن کیا۔ شنکر کے سمرن سے چکر ذرا سا مڑ گیا؛ اور اس بہادر کی گردن تک پہنچ کر سدرشن وہیں ٹھیک طرح جم گیا، گویا گلے کا زیور ہو۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa narrative, typically Skanda to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Naimiṣāraṇya ṛṣis (typical)
Scene: The blazing Sudarśana disc rushes forward; the threatened hero closes eyes in Śiva-remembrance. The disc subtly veers, then settles at the neck like a radiant ornament, flames becoming a halo-like collar.
FAQs
Remembrance of Śiva (śaṅkara-smaraṇa) is portrayed as spiritually sovereign—capable of turning even irresistible weapons aside.
Kāśī, where Śiva’s grace is narrated as immediately effective, even in cosmic confrontations.
Implicitly, smaraṇa (devotional remembrance) is praised; no formal vrata or dāna is specified here.