Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 62
प्रयत्नेन मया सृष्टा सा सृष्टिस्त्वदनुज्ञया । अवृष्ट्या षष्टिहायिन्या तत्र नष्टाऽप्रजा भुवि
prayatnena mayā sṛṣṭā sā sṛṣṭistvadanujñayā | avṛṣṭyā ṣaṣṭihāyinyā tatra naṣṭā'prajā bhuvi
“With effort I brought forth that creation, and it was accomplished with Your permission. Yet, because no rain fell for sixty years, the beings upon the earth perished, and the world was left without subjects.”
Brahmā
Scene: Brahmā describes a parched earth: cracked ground, withered trees, empty rivers; the sorrow of a world without subjects is conveyed as he petitions Śiva for a remedy.
FAQs
Creation depends on sustaining order (like timely rains); when balance fails, life collapses—prompting appeal to the divine source of restoration.
The narrative is embedded in Kāśī/Avimukta’s theological frame, though the verse describes a cosmic-earthly crisis rather than a local tīrtha.
None directly; it narrates drought and loss of beings.