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
Trước mặt các đệ tử mỗi ngày, bậc đại thánh hiền tối thượng Vyāsa hoan hỷ giảng giải vinh quang lớn lao của thánh địa (kṣetra).
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.