Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 46
अयं यो वर्त्तते ब्रह्मा शतानन्द इति श्रुतः । तस्य चैवाष्टमे वर्षे मनुर्यः प्रथमो भवेत्
ayaṃ yo varttate brahmā śatānanda iti śrutaḥ | tasya caivāṣṭame varṣe manuryaḥ prathamo bhavet
This Brahmā who presently presides is known as Śatānanda. In the eighth year of his rule, the one who becomes the first Manu arises.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (contextual frame)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: A didactic tableau: Śiva explains cosmic administration—Brahmā named Śatānanda and the arising of the first Manu—while Devī listens; subtle cosmic motifs (lotus, time-wheel) appear behind them.
FAQs
The Purāṇas locate sacred events within ordered cosmic administrations, showing Dharma unfolding through divinely governed epochs.
The chronology is part of the Somanātha (Prabhāsa Kṣetra) account, grounding the shrine’s legend in cosmic time.
None; the verse provides cosmological-historical placement.