Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 11
अस्यैवाक्षरमाहात्म्यं नालं वक्तुं चतुर्मुखः । श्रुतयो यत्र सिद्धांतं गताः परमनिर्वृताः
asyaivākṣaramāhātmyaṃ nālaṃ vaktuṃ caturmukhaḥ | śrutayo yatra siddhāṃtaṃ gatāḥ paramanirvṛtāḥ
इसी अक्षर-मंत्र की महिमा का पूर्ण वर्णन चारमुख ब्रह्मा भी नहीं कर सकते। जहाँ वेद स्वयं सिद्धान्त को प्राप्त होकर परम शान्ति में विश्राम करते हैं।
Deductive attribution: Purāṇic narrator in Brahmottara-khaṇḍa (likely Sūta/compilational voice)
Scene: Four-faced Brahmā seated on a lotus, scrolls of Veda unfurling and dissolving into a luminous five-syllable mantra; the syllables become a calm ocean of light where sound subsides into silence.
FAQs
The Śiva-mantra is portrayed as so profound that even Brahmā cannot exhaust its praise; it aligns with the Vedas’ ultimate purport.
No location is specified; the verse glorifies the mantra as the ‘end’ (siddhānta) of Śruti.
Implicitly, reverent engagement with the mantra; no separate rite (snāna/dāna) is stated.