Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 141
चाक्षुषस्यांतरे पूर्वमासीदेतत्पुरा किल । वैवस्वतेऽन्तरे चास्मिन्सर्वस्यैतस्य संभवः । समत्वं यत्रयत्रासीद्भूमेः कस्मिंश्चिदेव हि
cākṣuṣasyāṃtare pūrvamāsīdetatpurā kila | vaivasvate'ntare cāsminsarvasyaitasya saṃbhavaḥ | samatvaṃ yatrayatrāsīdbhūmeḥ kasmiṃścideva hi
Dans l’âge antérieur, au Manvantara de Cākṣuṣa, il en était ainsi, comme on s’en souvient depuis l’antique. Mais dans ce Manvantara de Vaivasvata naquirent toutes ces institutions. Là où la terre se trouvait plane, là même les hommes s’établissaient.
Īśvara (Śiva) as narrator
Tirtha: Prabhāsa (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A split-panel sense of time: left shows earlier Cākṣuṣa era—featureless level earth; right shows Vaivasvata era—people beginning to settle on level plains; a celestial wheel of time above.
FAQs
Civilization is cyclical across cosmic ages; dharma unfolds in time, giving rise to settled life and ordered institutions.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra is the narrative locus; by placing social origins within this Māhātmya, the text heightens Prabhāsa’s significance in sacred history.
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