Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 9
तृतीयस्य समुद्योगं यदा चक्रे स चक्रधृक् । तदा भिन्नं द्विजश्रेष्ठा ब्रह्मांडं लघुतां गतम्
tṛtīyasya samudyogaṃ yadā cakre sa cakradhṛk | tadā bhinnaṃ dvijaśreṣṭhā brahmāṃḍaṃ laghutāṃ gatam
চক্ৰধাৰী প্ৰভুৱে যেতিয়া তৃতীয় পদক্ষেপৰ উদ্যোগ কৰিলে, তেতিয়া, হে দ্বিজশ্ৰেষ্ঠসকল, ব্ৰহ্মাণ্ড অণ্ড ভেদ হ’ল আৰু যেন সৰু হৈ গ’ল বুলি প্ৰতীয়মান হ’ল।
Sūta
Tirtha: Trivikrama-pāda (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣayaḥ
Scene: Trivikrama lifts for the third stride; the cosmos appears as an oval ‘egg’ shell cracking as the divine foot approaches, with stars and lokas compressed, devas astonished, sages in awe.
FAQs
The divine is portrayed as limitless; cosmic boundaries themselves yield before the Lord’s stride—supporting the awe behind tirtha veneration.
The narrative supports the sanctity of Viṣṇupada-tīrtha by grounding it in the Trivikrama event.
None; it continues the cosmological origin account.