Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 23
एवं प्रयतमानानां वृष्णीनामन्धकैः सह । कालो गृहाणि सर्वाणि परिचक्राम नित्यशः
evaṃ prayatamānānāṃ vṛṣṇīnāmandhakaiḥ saha | kālo gṛhāṇi sarvāṇi paricakrāma nityaśaḥ
Mientras los Vṛṣṇis, junto con los Andhakas, se esforzaban de ese modo, el propio Kāla, el Tiempo, recorría sin cesar, día tras día, dando vueltas alrededor de todas sus moradas.
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator in Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya; traditionally Sūta)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa (foreshadowed)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Time personified—subtle, shadow-like—moves day after day around every house of the Vṛṣṇis and Andhakas, like a circling vulture or a turning wheel, unseen yet inescapable.
FAQs
Even disciplined effort cannot overrule Kāla; Purāṇic dharma urges humility and spiritual readiness when time ripens the fruits of collective karma.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, where the Purāṇa situates the Yādava/Vṛṣṇi narrative within a sacred coastal tīrtha landscape.
None; the verse emphasizes omens and the movement of personified Time.