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# Skandapurana 4.44

Skandapurāṇa 4.44

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.44.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3)

.. skaṃda uvāca ..  
atha maṃdarakaṃdarodarollasada samadyuti ratnamaṃdire ..  
paritaḥ samadhiṣṭhitāmare nijaśikharairvasanīkṛtāṃbare .. 1 ..  
nivasañjagadīśvaro haraḥ kṛśarajanīśa kalāmanoharaḥ ...  
labhate sma na śarma śaṃkaraḥ prasaratkāśiviyogaja jvaraḥ .. 2 ..  
virahānalaśāṃtaye tadā samalepi tripurāriṇāpi yaḥ ..  
malayodbhava paṃka eṣa sa pratipedehyadhunā pipāṃsutām . 3

> Skanda said: / Then, Hara, the lord of the universe, residing in a jeweled palace of peerless brilliance shining within the caves of Mount Mandara, / surrounded on all sides by the gods, and clothing the sky with his own peaks— / he, charming with a slender digit of the moon, / the author of peace, did not find happiness, burning with fever born of separation from expanding Kāśī. / The paste of Malaya-born sandalwood, applied even by the foe of Tripura to cool the fire of separation, / now truly assumed a burning thirst.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_1)

paritāpaharāṇi padminīnāṃ mṛdulānyapi kaṃkaṇīkṛtāni ..

> The soft \[lotus-stalks\] of lotus ponds that remove burning heat were turned into bracelets;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_2)

gaditāni yadīśvareṇa sarpāstadabhūtsatyamahomaheśvarecchā .. 4 ..

> when they were pronounced by the Lord to be snakes, they became truly so—ah, the will of the Great Lord!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_3)

yadu dugdhanidhiṃ nimathyadevairmṛdusāraḥ samakarṣi pūrṇacaṃdraḥ ..

> The full moon, soft essence churned from the ocean of milk and extracted by the gods,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_4)

sa babhūva kṛśo viyogatapteśvaramūrdhoṣmaparikṣaraccharīraḥ .. 5 ..

> became emaciated, its body dissolving under the heat radiating from the head of the Lord, burned by separation.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_5)

yadadīdharadeṣa jātatāpaḥ pṛthule maulijaṭāni kuṃjakoṇe ..

> Because Hara, afflicted with burning pain, held the celestial river  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_6)

paritāpaharāṃ harastadānīṃ dyunadīṃ tāmadhunāpi nojjihīte.. 6 ..

> which removes anguish in the broad corner of the bower of his matted hair, he does not release it even now.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_7)

mahato virahasya śaṃkaraḥ prasabhaṃtasyavaśī vaśaṃgataḥ ..

> Śaṃkara, master of his senses, was forcibly brought under the power of that great longing of separation;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_8)

vividena suraiḥ sadogatairapi saṃvītasutāpaveṣṭitaḥ .. 7 ..

> he sat despondent among the assembled gods, enveloped by intense torment.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_9)

aticitramidaṃ yadātmanā śucirapyeṣa kṛpīṭayoninā ..

> It is an exceedingly wondrous thing that though he is himself the pure fire,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_10)

svapurīvirahodbhavena vai paritāpyeta jagattrayeśvaraḥ .. 8 ..

> the lord of the three worlds was scorched by the fire born of separation from his own city.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_11)

nijabhālatalaṃ kalānidheḥ kalayā nityamalaṃkaroti yaḥ ..

> He who continually adorns his forehead with a digit of the moon—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_12)

sa tadīśvaramapyatāpayadvidhureko viparīta eva tu .. 9 ..

> that very moon, quite contrarily, burned even that Lord.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_13)

garalaṃ galanālikātale vilasedasya na tena tāpitaḥ ..

> Poison glistens in the region of his throat, yet he was not tormented by that;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_14)

amṛtāṃśu tuṣāradīdhiti pracayaireva tu tāpito'dbhutam .. 4.1.44.10 ..

> wondrously, he was tormented only by the clusters of cold rays of the nectar-rayed \[moon\]!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_15)

vilasaddharicaṃdanodakacchaṭayā tadvirahāpanuttaye ..

> To remove that anguish of separation with splashes of gleaming water mixed with yellow sandalwood,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_16)

hṛdayā hi tayāpyadūyata prasaradbhogiphaṭābhavairna tu ..11..

> his heart burned even from that, but not from the fiery breaths arising from the hoods of expanding serpents.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_17)

sakalabhramameṣa nāśayetsragahitvādyapadeśajaṃ haraḥ ..

> Hara destroys every delusion arising from the false notion of a snake in a garland and the like;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_18)

idamadbhutamasya yadbhramaḥ sphuṭamālyepi mahāhisaṃbhavaḥ ..12..

> wondrous it is that in his case, even on a real garland, the delusion arose that it was a great snake!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_19)

smṛtimātrapathaṃgatopi yastrividha tāpamapākarotyalam..

> Though he completely removes the threefold torment even when merely brought into the path of memory,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_20)

sa hi kāśiviyogatāpitaḥ svagataṃ kiṃcidajalpadityajaḥ .. 13 ..

> the Unborn himself, tormented by separation from Kāśī, spoke somewhat to himself:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_21)

api kāśi samāgato'nilo yadi gātrāṇi pariṣvajenmama ..

> “If only the breeze coming from Kāśī would embrace my limbs,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_22)

davathuḥ pariśāṃtimeti tannahi mānī parigāhanairapi .. 14 ..

> then my burning torment would find peace; it does not do so even by immersion in Lake Mānasa!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_23)

agamiṣyadahokathaṃ satāpo nanu dakṣāṃgajayāya edhitaḥ ..

> Alas, how would that burning torment have subsided which was fostered by Dakṣa's daughter,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_24)

mamajīvātulatā jhaṭityalaṃ hyabhaviṣyanna himādrijā yadi .. 15 ..

> if the daughter of the Himālaya had not swiftly become a life-giving creeper for me?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_25)

na tathojjhitadehayātayā mama dakṣodbhavayāmano'dunot ..

> Dakṣa's daughter, passing away when abandoning her body, did not cause my mind to suffer  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_26)

avimuktaviyogajanmanāpari dūyeta yathā mahoṣmaṇā .. 16 ..

> as it burns intensely with this immense heat born of separation from Avimukta!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_27)

ayi kāśi mudā kadā punastava lapsye sukhamaṃgasaṃgajam ..

> O Kāśī, when shall I joyfully attain again the happiness born of embracing you,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_28)

atiśītalitāni yena me'dbhutagātrāṇi bhavaṃti tatkṣaṇāt .. 17 ..

> by which my wonderful limbs will immediately become cooled?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_29)

ayi kāśi vināśitāghasaṃghe tavaviśleṣajaāśuśukṣaṇiḥ ..

> O Kāśī, destroyer of multitudes of sins, the fire born of separation from you,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_30)

amṛtāṃśukalāmṛdudravairaticitraṃhaviṣeva vardhate .. 18 ..

> wondrously flares up with the gentle nectar streams of the moon's digit as if with clarified butter!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_31)

agamanmama dakṣajā viyogajo davathuḥ prāgghimavatsutauṣadhena ..

> Formerly, my burning pain born of separation from Dakṣa's daughter vanished through the medicine that was the daughter of the Himālaya;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_32)

adhunā khalu naiva śāṃtimīyāṃ yadi kāśīṃ na vilokayehamāśu .. 19 ..

> now, indeed, I shall by no means attain peace unless I quickly behold Kāśī!”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_33)

manaseti gṛṇaṃstadā śivaḥ sutarāṃ saṃvṛtatāpavaikṛtaḥ ..

> Reciting thus in his mind, Śiva, entirely concealing the outward signs of his torment,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_34)

jagadaṃbikayā dhiyāṃ jananyā kathamapyeṣa viyukta ityamāni .. 4.1.44.20 ..

> was somehow perceived as separated \[from his beloved\] by the Mother of the World, the mother of intellects. // 4.1.44.20  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_35)

priyayā vapuṣordhayānayāpyaparijñāta viyogakāraṇaḥ ..

> Though she formed half his body, she did not know the cause of his longing;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_36)

vacanairupacaryate sma sapraṇataprāṇinidāghadāraṇaḥ .. 21 ..

> he, the destroyer of the burning distress of bowed living beings, was addressed with words by his beloved: // 21  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_37)

.. śrīpārvatyuvāca .. ..

> Śrī Pārvatī said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_38)

tava sarvaga sarvamasti haste vilasadyoga viyoga eva kaste ..

> “O omnipresent one, everything is in your hand! What separation can there be for you, whose yoga shines forth?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_39)

tava bhūtiraho vibhūtidātrī sakalāpatkalikāpi bhūtadhātrī .. 22 ..

> Ah, your ashes grant prosperity; though she bears the shoots of every misfortune, the earth bears all creatures! // 22  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_40)

tvadanīkṣaṇataḥ kṣaṇādvibho pralayaṃ yāṃti jagaṃti śocyavat ..

> O Lord, through not beholding you, the worlds instantly go to ruin like something pitiful.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_41)

cyavate bhavataḥ kṛpālavāditaropīśanayastvayoṃkṛtaḥ .. 23 ..

> Even an ordinary person cast out from your fraction of grace was once affirmed by you with ‘Om’. // 23  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_42)

bhavataḥ paritāpahetavo na bhavaṃtīṃdu divākarāgnayaḥ ..

> The moon, the sun, and fire do not cause you distress,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_43)

nayanāniyatastrinetra te'mī praṇayinyastilasajjalā ca maulau .. 24 ..

> since, O three-eyed one, they are your eyes; and your beloved \[Gaṅgā\] of sparkling water rests on your crest. // 24  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_44)

bhujagābhujagāḥ sadaiva te'mī na viṣaṃ saṃkramate ca nīlakaṃṭha ..

> These serpents of yours never bite, and poison does not spread \[in you\], O blue-throated one!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_45)

ahamasmi ca vāmadeva vāmā tava vāmaṃvapuratra cittayuktā ..25..

> And I, O Vāmadeva, am the fair woman making up your left side, united with your mind. // 25 //”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_46)

iti saṃsṛtisaṃbījajananyābhihite hite ..

> When this beneficial speech was thus spoken by the mother of the seeds of cyclic existence,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_47)

girāṃ niguṃphe giriśo vaktumapyādade giram .. 26 ..

> Giriśa took up speech to reply to that weaving of words. // 26  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_48)

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..

> The Lord said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_49)

ayi kāśītyaṣṭamūrtirbhavo bhāvāṣṭakobhavat ..

> “Ah, Kāśī!” Saying this, Bhava, who possesses the eight forms, manifested the eight emotions.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_50)

satvaraṃ śivayājñāyi dhruvaṃ kāśyāhṛtoharaḥ ..27..

> Quickly Śivā realized: “Surely Hara has been captivated by Kāśī!” // 27  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_51)

athabālasakhī bhūta tattatkānanavīrudham .. śivāprastāvayāṃcakre vimuktāṃ muktidāṃ purīm ..28..

> Then, having the creepers of that forest as her childhood companions, Śivā introduced the topic of that forsaken city which bestows liberation. // 28  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_52)

.. pārvatyuvāca .. ..

> Pārvatī said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_53)

gaganatalamilitasalile pralayepi bhava triśūlapari vidhṛtām ..

> “Let us go, O Bhava, destroyer of Smara, to the city of Kāśī, / held aloft upon your trident even during the cosmic dissolution when the waters meet the vault of heaven,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_54)

kṛtapuṃḍarīkaśobhāṃ smaraharakāśīṃ purīṃ yāvaḥ ..29..

> which displays the beauty of a white lotus! // 29  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_55)

dharādhareṃdrasya dharātisuṃdarā na māṃ tathāsyāpi dhinoti dhūrjaṭe..

> The earth of the king of mountains, though exceedingly beautiful, does not please me, O Dhūrjaṭi,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_56)

dharāgatāpīha na yā dhruvaṃdharā purīdhurīṇā tava kāśikā yathā..4.1.44.30..

> as does your Kāśikā, the foremost of cities, which, though situated upon the earth, is truly not of the earth! // 4.1.44.30  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_57)

na yatra kāśyāṃ kalikālajaṃ bhayaṃ na yatra kāśyāṃ maraṇātpunarbhavaḥ..

> Where, in Kāśī, there is no fear born of the Kali age; where, in Kāśī, there is no rebirth after death;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_58)

na yatra kāśyāṃ kaluṣodbhavaṃ bhayaṃ kathaṃ vibho sā nayanātithirbhavet ..31..

> where, in Kāśī, there is no fear arising from sin—O Lord, how may she become a guest of our eyes? // 31  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_59)

kimatra no saṃti puraḥ sahasraśaḥ padepade sarvasamṛddhibhūmayaḥ ..

> Are there not here thousands of cities, grounds of all prosperity at every step?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_60)

paraṃ na kāśī sadṛśīdṛśoḥ padaṃ kvacidgatā me bhavatā śape śiva .. 32 ..

> Yet none equal to Kāśī has ever come within the range of my eyes; I swear by you, O Śiva! // 32  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_61)

triviṣṭape saṃti na kiṃ puraḥ śataṃ samastakautūhalajanmabhūmayaḥ ..

> Are there not in heaven hundreds of cities, birthplaces of every wonder?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_62)

tṛṇī bhavaṃtīha ca tāḥ puraḥpuraḥ padaṃ purāre bhavato bhavadviṣaḥ ..33..

> Yet all those cities become like blades of grass before your abode, O enemy of the cities, enemy of worldly existence! // 33  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_63)

na kevalaṃ kāśiviyogajo jvaraḥ prabādhate tvāṃ tu tathā yathātra mām ..

> The fever born of separation from Kāśī does not merely torment you, but torments me just as much here.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_64)

upāya eṣotra nidāghaśāṃtaye purī tu sā vā mamajanmabhūratha .. 34 ..

> The remedy for quenching this burning heat is either that city, or else my birthplace. // 34  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_65)

mayā na mene mamajanmabhūmikā viyogajanmā paridāghaīśitaḥ ..

> I did not consider my birthplace capable of quelling the burning heat born of separation,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_66)

avāpyakāśīṃ paritaḥ praśāṃtidāṃ samastasaṃtāpavighātahetukām .. 35 ..

> once I reached Kāśī, which grants complete peace and is the cause of destroying all anguish. // 35  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_67)

na mokṣalakṣmyotra samakṣamīkṣitāstanūbhṛtā kenacideva kutracit ..

> Here, the Fortune of liberation was never seen face-to-face anywhere by any embodied being;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_68)

avaimyahaṃ śarmada sarvaśarmadā sarūpiṇī muktirasau hi kāśikā .. 36 ..

> I know, O granter of bliss, that this Kāśikā is indeed liberation incarnate, granting all happiness. // 36  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_69)

na muktirastīha tathā samādhinā sthireṃdriyatvojjhita tatsamādhinā ..

> Liberation is not attained here by samādhi through steadying the senses, nor by abandoning that samādhi,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_70)

kratukriyābhirna na vedavidyayā yathā hi kāśyāṃ parihāya vigraham ..37..

> nor by the rites of sacrifices, nor by knowledge of the Vedas, as it is by shedding the body in Kāśī. // 37  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_71)

na nākaloke sukhamasti tādṛśaṃ kutastu pātālatale'tisuṃdare ..

> There is no such happiness in heaven, so how could there be in the exceedingly beautiful realm of Pātāla?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_72)

vārtāpi martye sukhasaṃśrayā kva vā kāśyāṃ hi yādṛktanumātradhāriṇi .. 38 ..

> Where is there even talk of a shelter of joy among mortals such as belongs to one who merely bears a body in Kāśī? // 38  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_73)

kṣetre triśūlinbhavato'vimukte vimuktilakṣmyā na kadāpi mukte ..

> In your sacred field, the Avimukta, O bearer of the trident, never forsaken by the Fortune of liberation,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_74)

manopi yaḥ prāṇivaraḥ prayuṃkte ṣaḍaṃgayogaṃ sa sadaiva yuṃkte .. 39 ..

> the best of living beings who applies even his mind always practices the six-limbed yoga. // 39  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_75)

ṣaḍaṃgayogānnahi tādṛśī nṛbhiḥ śarīrasiddhiḥ sahasātra labhyate ..

> By men here, bodily perfection is not quickly attained through six-limbed yoga  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_76)

sukhena kāśīṃ samavāpya yādṛśīdṛśau sthirīkṛtya śiva tvayi kṣaṇam .. 4.1.44.40 ..

> in such a way as it is attained with ease by reaching Kāśī and fixing one's gaze upon you for an instant, O Śiva. // 4.1.44.40  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_77)

varaṃ hi tiryaktvamabuddhivaibhavaṃ na mānavatvaṃ bahubuddhibhājanam ..

> Better indeed is the state of a beast, devoid of intellect, than human existence, the receptacle of much intellect,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_78)

akāśisaṃdarśananiṣphalodayaṃ samaṃtataḥ puṣkarabudbudopamam .. 41 ..

> whose rising is fruitless without the sight of Kāśī, resembling a bubble on the water all around. // 41  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_79)

dṛśau kṛtārthe kṛtakāśidarśane tanuḥkṛtārthā śivakāśivāsinī ..

> Fulfilled are the two eyes that have seen Kāśī; fulfilled is the body dwelling in Śiva’s Kāśī;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_80)

manaḥkṛtārthaṃ dhṛtakāśisaṃśrayaṃ mukhaṃ kṛtārthaṃ kṛtakāśisaṃmukham .. 42 ..

> fulfilled is the mind that has taken shelter in Kāśī; fulfilled is the face turned toward Kāśī. // 42  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_81)

varaṃ hi tatkāśirajoti pāvanaṃ rajastamodhvaṃsi śaśiprabhojjvalam ..

> Better indeed is that dust of Kāśī, exceedingly pure, destroying passion and darkness, radiant like moonlight,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_82)

kṛtapraṇāmairmaṇikarṇikā bhuve lalāṭagaṃyadbahumanyate suraiḥ .. 43 ..

> which, reaching the forehead of those who prostrate on the ground of Maṇikarṇikā, is highly honored by the gods! // 43  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_83)

na devaloko na ca satyaloko na nāgaloko maṇikarṇikāyāḥ ..

> Neither the world of the gods, nor Satyaloka, nor the world of the Nāgas  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_84)

tulāṃ vrajedyatra mahāprayāṇakṛcchrutirbhavedbrahmarasāyanāspadam ..44..

> can match Maṇikarṇikā, where the ear of one making the great departure becomes the receptacle of the elixir of Brahman. // 44  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_85)

mahāmahobhūrmaṇikarṇikāsthalī tamastatiryatra sameti saṃkṣayam ..

> The ground of Maṇikarṇikā is a place of great splendor, where the mass of darkness comes to an end—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_86)

paraḥ śatairjanmabhiredhitāpi yā divākarāgnīṃdukarairanigrahā .. 45 ..

> that darkness which, though nourished across hundreds of lifetimes, cannot be subdued by the rays of the sun, fire, and moon! // 45  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_87)

kimu nirvāṇapadasya bhadrapīṭhaṃ mṛdulaṃ talpamathonumokṣalakṣmyāḥ ..

> Is it the auspicious throne of the state of nirvāṇa, or the soft couch of the Fortune of liberation,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_88)

athavā maṇikarṇikāsthalī paramānaṃdasukaṃdajanmabhūmiḥ .. 46 ..

> or rather is the ground of Maṇikarṇikā the birthplace of the excellent bulb of supreme bliss? // 46  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_89)

samatītavimuktajaṃtusaṃkhyā kriyate yatra janaiḥ sukhopaviṣṭaiḥ ..

> Where the number of past liberated beings is counted by people sitting happily  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_90)

vilasaddyuti sūkṣmaśarkarābhiḥ svavapuḥpātamahotsavābhilāṣaiḥ .. 47 ..

> with gleaming, fine gravel, yearning for the great festival of casting off their own bodies! // 47 //”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_91)

.. skaṃda uvāca .. ..

> Skanda said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_92)

aparṇāparivarṇyeti purīṃ vārāṇasīṃ mune ..

> O sage, Aparṇā, having thus described the city of Vārāṇasī,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_93)

punarvijñāpayāmāsa kāśīprāptyai pinākinam.. 48 ..

> again addressed the wielder of the Pināka for the sake of regaining Kāśī:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_94)

śrīpārvatyuvāca .. ..

> The glorious Pārvatī said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_95)

pramathādhipa sarveśa nityasvādhīnavartana ..

> “O Lord of the Pramathas, Lord of all, whose conduct is ever independent!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_96)

yathānaṃdavanaṃ yāyāṃ tathā kuru varaprada.. 49 ..

> O giver of boons, act in such a way that I may go to Ānandavana.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_97)

skanda uvāca.. ..

> Skanda said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_98)

jitapīyūṣamādhuryāṃ kāśīstavanasuṃdarīm ..

> Then, having heard Girijā’s words, charming with the praise of Kāśī  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_99)

athākarṇyāhamudito giriśo girijāṃ giram .. 4.1.44.50 ..

> and surpassing the sweetness of nectar, Giriśa, delighted, \[spoke\]:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_100)

śrīdevadeva uvāca .. ..

> The glorious God of gods said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_101)

ayi priyatame gauri tvadvā gamṛtasīkaraiḥ ..

> “Ah, dearest Gaurī! By the drops of nectar of your speech  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_102)

āpyāyitosmi nitarāṃ kāśīprāptyai yatedhunā .. 51 ..

> I am thoroughly gratified. Now I shall strive to regain Kāśī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_103)

tvaṃ jānāsi mahādevi mama yattanmahadvratam..

> You know, O great goddess, that great vow of mine:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_104)

abhuktapūrvamanyena vastūpāśnāmi netarat ..52..

> I enjoy a thing that has not been enjoyed before by another, not anything else.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_105)

pitāmahasya vacanāddivodāse mahīpatau..

> Since King Divodāsa, by the word of the Grandfather,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_106)

dharmeṇa śāsati purīṃ ka upāyo vidhīyatām ..53..

> rules the city righteously, what means may be devised?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_107)

kathaṃ sa rājā dharmiṣṭhaḥ prajāpālanatatparaḥ ..

> How can that king, devoted to righteousness and intent on protecting his subjects,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_108)

viyojyate puraḥ kāśyā divodāso mahīpatiḥ..54..

> King Divodāsa, be separated from the city of Kāśī?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_109)

adharmavartino yasmādvighnaḥ syānnetarasya tu ..

> An obstacle can affect only one who walks in unrighteousness, and none other.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_110)

tasmātkaṃ preṣayāmīśe yastaṃ kāśyā viyojayet ..55..

> Therefore, whom shall I send, O goddess, who could separate him from Kāśī?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_111)

dharmavartmānusaratāṃ yo vighnaṃ samupācaret ..

> Whoever causes an obstacle to those pursuing the path of righteousness,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_112)

tasyaiva jāyate vighnaḥ pratyuta premavardhini ..56 ..

> to that very person, on the contrary, an obstacle arises, O increaser of my love!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_113)

vinācchidreṇa taṃ bhūpaṃ notsādayitumutsahe ..

> Without a flaw, I do not venture to overthrow that king;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_114)

mayaiva hi yato rakṣyāḥ priye dharmadhuraṃdharāḥ .. 57 ..

> for it is by me indeed, my dear, that the upholders of righteousness must be protected.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_115)

na jarā tamatikrāmenna taṃ mṛtyurjirghāṃsati ..

> Old age does not overcome him; death does not seek to slay him;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_116](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_116)

vyādhayastaṃ na bādhaṃte dharmavartmabhṛdatrayaḥ .. 58 ..

> diseases do not afflict him: these three belong to the follower of righteousness’ path.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_117)

iti saṃciṃtayandevo yoginīcakramagrataḥ ..

> Reflecting thus, the Lord saw before him the circle of Yoginīs,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_118)

dadarśātimahāprauḍhaṃ gāḍhakāryasya sādhanam ..59..

> exceedingly mature, capable of accomplishing difficult tasks.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_119)

atha devyā samālocya vyomakeśo mahāmune ..

> Then, having deliberated with the goddess, O great sage, Vyomakeśa,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_120)

yoginīvṛṃdamāhūya jagau vākyamidaṃ haraḥ .. 4.1.44.60 ..

> Hara, summoned the host of Yoginīs and spoke these words:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_121)

satvaraṃ yāta yoginyo mama vārāṇasīṃ purīm..

> “Go quickly, O Yoginīs, to my city Vārāṇasī,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_122](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_122)

yatra rājā divodāso rājyaṃ dharmeṇa śāstyalam .. 61 ..

> where King Divodāsa amply rules the kingdom with righteousness.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_123](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_123)

svadharmavicyutaḥ kāśīṃ yathā tūrṇaṃ tyajennṛpaḥ ..

> So that the king, falling from his own duty, may swiftly abandon Kāśī,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_124)

tathopacarata prājñā yogamāyābalānvitāḥ ..62..

> contrive, O wise ones, endowed with the power of illusory magic.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_125](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_125)

yathā punarnavīkṛtya purīṃ vārāṇasīmaham ..

> So that I, having restored the city of Vārāṇasī anew,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_126)

itaḥ prayāmi yoginyastathā kṣipraṃ vidhīyatām .. 63 ..

> may go from here, O Yoginīs, act quickly!”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_127)

iti prasādamāsādya śāsanaṃ śirasā vahan..

> Having thus received the favor and bearing his command upon their heads,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_128)

kṛtapraṇāmo niryāto yoginīnāṃ gaṇastataḥ .. 64 ..

> having bowed down, the group of Yoginīs departed from there.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_129)

yayurākāśamāviśya manasopya tiraṃhasā ..

> Entering the sky, with a speed greater even than thought,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_130](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_130)

parasparaṃ bhāṣamāṇā yoginyastā mudānvitāḥ ..65..

> those Yoginīs went along, speaking to one another with joy:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_131](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_131)

adya dhanyatarāḥ smo vai devadevena yatsvayam ..

> “Today we are exceedingly fortunate, since by the God of gods himself,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_132](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_132)

kṛtaprasādāḥ prahitāḥ śrīmadānaṃdakānanam..66..

> favored, we have been dispatched to the glorious Ānandakānana.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_133](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_133)

adya sadyo mahālābhāvabhūtāṃ notidurlabhau ..

> Today, all at once, two great gains, not easily attained, have occurred:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_134)

trinetrarājasaṃmānastathā kāśī vilokanam .. 67 ..

> honor from the King with the Three Eyes, and the sight of Kāśī.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_135)

iti muditamanāḥ sa yoginīnāṃ nikuraṃvastvathamaṃdarādrikuṃjāt ..

> Thus, with joyful minds, that host of Yoginīs, leaving the bower of Mount Mandara  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_136](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_136)

nabhasi laghukṛtaprayāṇavego nayanātithyamalaṃbhayatpurīṃ tām .. 68 ..

> and quickening their speed of flight in the sky, made that city a guest of their eyes.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.44.3\_137](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.44.3_137)

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ caturthe kāśīkhaṃḍe pūvārddhe kāśīvarṇanaṃ nāma catuścatvāriṃśodhyāyaḥ .. 44 ..

> Thus ends the forty-fourth chapter, named 'The Description of Kāśī,' in the first half of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.44.3) — English, machine translation

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