स्कंद उवाच । ओंनमो गंगादेव्यै । ओंकाररूपिण्यजराऽतुलाऽनमताऽमृतस्रवा । अत्युदाराऽभयाऽशोकाऽलकनंदाऽमृताऽमला
skaṃda uvāca | oṃnamo gaṃgādevyai | oṃkārarūpiṇyajarā'tulā'namatā'mṛtasravā | atyudārā'bhayā'śokā'lakanaṃdā'mṛtā'malā
斯坎达言:顶礼恒河女神!其体即为“唵”;不老无比、无可伦比;为恭敬礼拜者流注甘露之流。至为慷慨,赐无畏、除忧苦——阿拉迦难陀,常住不死,清净无垢。
Skanda
Tirtha: Gaṅgā (Kāśī-sannidhāna)
Type: ghat
Scene: Skanda as narrator offers a luminous hymn to Gaṅgā; the river appears as a radiant goddess arising from Oṁ, flowing past Kāśī’s ghāṭas with a nectar-like shimmer, granting fearlessness and removing sorrow.
Reverent surrender to Gaṅgā is portrayed as a direct encounter with purity and nectar-like grace—fear and sorrow are dispelled through devotion.
Gaṅgā in the Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) sacred landscape—praised as the purifying, nectar-flowing divine river central to Kāśī-māhātmya.
No explicit rite is commanded here; the verse emphasizes namaskāra (bowing/salutation) to Gaṅgā as a devotional act.