Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 9
एतस्मिन्नंतरे देवि भारतं क्षेत्रमुत्तमम् । कृतं त्रेता द्वापरं च तिष्यं युगचतुष्टयम्
etasminnaṃtare devi bhārataṃ kṣetramuttamam | kṛtaṃ tretā dvāparaṃ ca tiṣyaṃ yugacatuṣṭayam
এই বিস্তাৰৰ ভিতৰত, হে দেবী, ভাৰতেই সৰ্বোত্তম পবিত্ৰ ক্ষেত্ৰ। ইয়াত চাৰিযুগ—কৃত, ত্ৰেতা, দ্বাপৰ আৰু তিষ্য (কলি) গণ্য হয়।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Bhārata-kṣetra (as sacred field)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: Īśvara declares Bhārata the best kṣetra and enumerates the four yugas; a symbolic wheel of time (yuga-cakra) appears behind the landscape of Bhārata, indicating cyclical ages.
FAQs
Bhārata is upheld as the prime arena where yuga-dharma unfolds and where spiritual striving has decisive karmic consequence.
The verse praises Bhārata as a whole; in the chapter’s frame, this elevates the importance of tīrthas within Bhārata such as Prabhāsa.
None; it is doctrinal/cosmological (yuga classification).