Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 49
यस्मिञ्जगत्स्थावरजंगमादिकं काले लयं प्राप्य पुनः प्ररोहति । तस्मिन्प्रनष्टे द्विजशापपीडिते जयद्धतप्राय मवर्तत क्षणात्
yasmiñjagatsthāvarajaṃgamādikaṃ kāle layaṃ prāpya punaḥ prarohati | tasminpranaṣṭe dvijaśāpapīḍite jayaddhataprāya mavartata kṣaṇāt
Aquel en quien el mundo entero—lo inmóvil y lo móvil—en el tiempo señalado se disuelve y vuelve a brotar: cuando ese Señor desapareció, oprimido por la maldición del brāhmaṇa, el universo, en un instante, quedó como si ya estuviera pereciendo.
Narrator (within Brahma–Nārada Saṃvāda frame)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (context)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Nārada
Scene: A cosmic tableau: the universe of moving and unmoving beings fading like a dream; the Lord’s absence represented by a dimmed central bindu/halo; sages and devas witnessing near-pralaya in a moment.
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The Lord is portrayed as the cosmic ground of dissolution and renewal; separation from that sustaining presence leads to immediate existential collapse.
The passage is embedded in the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra Māhātmya of the Nāgara Khaṇḍa.
None; the verse is cosmological, emphasizing the Lord’s role in pralaya and resurgence.
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