Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 48
यस्तु क्षेत्रमुषित्वा तु नैतां यात्रां समाचरेत् । विघ्नास्तस्योपतिष्ठंते क्षेत्रोच्चाटनसूचकाः
yastu kṣetramuṣitvā tu naitāṃ yātrāṃ samācaret | vighnāstasyopatiṣṭhaṃte kṣetroccāṭanasūcakāḥ
لیکن جو شخص مقدّس کشتَر میں رہ کر بھی اس یاترا کو انجام نہ دے، اس پر رکاوٹیں نازل ہوتی ہیں، جو کشتَر سے نکالے جانے کی علامت ہیں۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly as Skanda teaching Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (resident’s yātrā obligation)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A Kāśī resident neglects the yātrā; dark clouds and symbolic impediments—closed temple doors, tangled streets, broken offering pot—appear as omens of kṣetra-uccāṭana.
FAQs
Privilege of dwelling in Kāśī demands observance; neglect of prescribed devotion invites vighnas and spiritual decline.
Kāśī as a kṣetra whose continued grace is linked to maintaining its yātrā-dharma.
Residents must perform the stated yātrā; failure is warned to bring obstacles signaling loss of kṣetra-connection.