Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 23
ब्रह्मादिस्तम्बपर्यन्तं यस्मिन्नेति लयं जगत् । एकभावं समापन्नं लिङ्गं तस्माद्विदुर्बुधाः
brahmādistambaparyantaṃ yasminneti layaṃ jagat | ekabhāvaṃ samāpannaṃ liṅgaṃ tasmādvidurbudhāḥ
Das, worin das Weltall sich auflöst — von Brahmā bis zum Grashalm — erkennen die Weisen als den Liṅga, denn es ist die Eine Wirklichkeit, in der alles zur Einheit gelangt.
Śiva (deduced from immediate continuation where Mahādeva addresses Devī)
Scene: A vast, aniconic Liṅga at the center of the cosmos; worlds, gods, and beings stream inward like rivers into an ocean, dissolving into a single luminous axis; Brahmā above, grass below, all merging.
FAQs
The Liṅga signifies the single, ultimate reality into which all multiplicity resolves—supporting reverence and inner unity.
Within Revā-kṣetra narration, the verse undergirds the sanctity of Liṅga-sthānas along the Revā (Narmadā).
Not explicit; it implicitly validates Liṅga-pūjā as worship of the supreme, all-absorbing principle.