Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 1
स्कंद उवाच । अन्यान्यपि च लिंगानि कथयामि महामुने । अमृतेशमुखादीनि यन्नामाप्यमृतप्रदम्
skaṃda uvāca | anyānyapi ca liṃgāni kathayāmi mahāmune | amṛteśamukhādīni yannāmāpyamṛtapradam
Skanda nói: “Hỡi đại hiền triết, ta sẽ kể thêm về những Liṅga khác—bắt đầu từ Amṛteśa—mà ngay cả danh xưng của chúng cũng ban tặng amṛta, ân phúc bất tử (giải thoát như cam lộ).”
Skanda
Tirtha: Amṛteśa (first in the forthcoming series)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahāmuni
Scene: Skanda, radiant and youthful, addresses a great sage in an āśrama-like setting, beginning a new enumeration of Kāśī liṅgas; the word ‘Amṛteśa’ is visually suggested by a nectar pot (amṛta-kalaśa) near a liṅga shrine vignette.
FAQs
In Kāśī, even remembrance and naming of Śiva’s Liṅgas is portrayed as spiritually transformative and life-transcending.
The discourse introduces Kāśī’s Liṅgas, explicitly beginning with Amṛteśa.
Implicitly, nāma-smaraṇa (recitation/remembering the name) is praised as conferring amṛta-like merit.