वेदान्पठित्वा विधिवद्ब्रह्मयज्ञरता भुवि । यां श्रयंति द्विजा मुक्त्यै सेयं श्रीमणिकर्णिका
vedānpaṭhitvā vidhivadbrahmayajñaratā bhuvi | yāṃ śrayaṃti dvijā muktyai seyaṃ śrīmaṇikarṇikā
Sau khi học tụng Veda đúng pháp và chuyên tâm nơi cõi đất vào Brahma-yajña (việc học và tụng niệm thiêng liêng), các bậc dvija nương tựa nơi nàng để cầu giải thoát—đó chính là Śrī Maṇikarṇikā rạng ngời.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda speaking to Agastya)
Tirtha: Śrī Maṇikarṇikā
Type: ghat
Listener: Śaunaka and the Naimiṣāraṇya sages (frame) / or Kāśī-māhātmya interlocutors (internal)
Scene: Vedic scholars with matted hair-knots and sacred threads recite from palm-leaf manuscripts near the Gaṅgā steps at Maṇikarṇikā; smoke from distant pyres rises; a subtle presence of Śiva as the unseen liberator pervades the scene.
Even the merit of Vedic learning is crowned by taking refuge in the liberating tīrtha of Maṇikarṇikā for mokṣa.
Śrī Maṇikarṇikā in Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), famed as a mokṣa-conferring sacred spot.
Brahma-yajña—disciplined study/recitation of the Vedas as a sacred duty.