Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 16
युगरूपेण सा पश्चाच्चतुर्धा विनियोजिता । मदप्रज्ञानुसारेण नराणां तु महर्षिभिः
yugarūpeṇa sā paścāccaturdhā viniyojitā | madaprajñānusāreṇa narāṇāṃ tu maharṣibhiḥ
Plus tard, selon la nature des yuga, les grands ṛṣi l’ordonnèrent en quatre parties, suivant les diverses capacités de l’intelligence des hommes.
Mārkaṇḍeya
Listener: Nareśvara and ṛṣis
Scene: Sages organizing a vast corpus into four divisions: piles of manuscripts being sorted; a symbolic wheel of time (yuga-cakra) behind them; humans of varied stations receiving teachings suited to them.
FAQs
Dharma-teaching is compassionate and adaptive—presented in forms suitable to the yuga and the listener’s capacity.
None directly; it is a meta-statement about how the Purāṇa was organized.
None; it explains textual structuring, not a ritual.