Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 18
कला देवि यदाद्यंतमनादिमजमव्ययम् । तदान्वितः शशी तस्यामधोमुखमवस्थितः
kalā devi yadādyaṃtamanādimajamavyayam | tadānvitaḥ śaśī tasyāmadhomukhamavasthitaḥ
হে দেৱী, ‘কলা’ বুলিলে যাৰ আদি-অন্ত আছে তাক বুজায়; কিন্তু পৰম তত্ত্ব অনাদি, অজ, অব্যয়। সেই কলাৰ সৈতে যুক্ত হৈ চন্দ্ৰ তাত অধোমুখে অৱস্থিত।
Śiva
Tirtha: Somnātha at Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: Candra depicted with a downward-turned face beneath a higher, formless radiance symbolizing the unborn, undecaying Supreme; subtle suggestion of Somnātha’s liṅga as the axis of the teaching.
FAQs
Time and its parts are finite, but the divine reality is beyond birth and decay; spiritual practice aims at that imperishable ground.
Prabhāsa Kṣetra is the textual setting; metaphysical teaching enhances the Māhātmya’s authority and sanctity.
None in this verse.