Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 8
शिष्याणां पुरतो नित्यं क्षेत्रस्य महिमा महान् । व्याख्यायते मुदा तेन व्यासेन परमर्षिणा
śiṣyāṇāṃ purato nityaṃ kṣetrasya mahimā mahān | vyākhyāyate mudā tena vyāsena paramarṣiṇā
اپنے شاگردوں کے سامنے ہر روز، وہ برتر رِشی ویاس خوشی کے ساتھ اس مقدس کھیتر کی عظیم شان بیان کرتا ہے۔
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī kṣetra (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Vyāsa, serene and radiant, teaches seated before attentive disciples; behind them, Kāśī’s skyline and ghāṭas symbolize the ‘field’ whose glory is being explained.
FAQs
Kṣetra-māhātmya is preserved through daily teaching: joyfully transmitting the glory of Kāśī is itself a devotional act.
The ‘kṣetra’—in context, Kāśī/Varanasi—is glorified generally as a sacred field of exceptional greatness.
No specific rite is prescribed; the practice emphasized is nitya-vyākhyāna—regular exposition of the kṣetra’s glory.