यद्यपि काशीखण्डमाधुनिकं कल्पितं काव्यमिति पुराणतत्त्ववित्सु प्रसिद्धम्, तथापि तदाकारस्कान्दवायव्यकौर्मादिप्रतिपादितसदाचारविषयकाणि कानिचिद्वचनानि स्मृतिसंवलितान्यत्र सङ्गृहीतानि इत्यदोषः ।
yadyapi kāśī-khaṇḍam ādhunikaṁ kalpitaṁ kāvyam iti purāṇa-tattvavitsu prasiddham, tathāpi tad-ākāra-skānda-vāyavya-kaurmādi-pratipādita-sadācāra-viṣayakāṇi kānicid vacanāni smṛti-saṁvalitāny atra saṅgṛhītāni ity adoṣaḥ |
(Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā on Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 3.13–14)
“Although the Kāśī Khaṇḍa is well-known among those cognizant of the nature of Purāṇas to be a modern made composition, still some statements of this sort presented in the Skanda, Vāyu, Kūrma, and other Purāṇas related to sadācāra that are part of the Smṛti are accepted here. There is no fault in this regard.”