Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 52
तमुवाच ततो दैत्यं विरंचोऽमरनायकः । न युज्यते विना मृत्युं देहिनो देहधारणम् । जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युः सत्यमेतच्छ्रुतीरितम्
tamuvāca tato daityaṃ viraṃco'maranāyakaḥ | na yujyate vinā mṛtyuṃ dehino dehadhāraṇam | jātasya hi dhruvo mṛtyuḥ satyametacchrutīritam
ಆಮೇಲೆ ಅಮರನಾಯಕ ವಿರಂಚ (ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ) ಆ ದೈತ್ಯನಿಗೆ ಹೇಳಿದನು—ಮರಣವಿಲ್ಲದೆ ದೇಹಧಾರಿಯ ದೇಹಧಾರಣೆ ಯುಕ್ತವಲ್ಲ. ಜನಿಸಿದವನಿಗೆ ಮರಣ ಧ್ರುವ; ಇದು ಶ್ರುತಿ ಹೇಳಿದ ಸತ್ಯ.
Brahmā (Virañca)
Listener: Ṛṣis (frame)
Scene: Brahmā (Virañca) calmly instructs the daitya: embodied existence cannot be deathless; śruti itself declares death certain for the born.
FAQs
Embodiment implies impermanence; even divine boons cannot overturn the Vedic law that birth culminates in death.
None; the verse teaches universal dharma grounded in śruti rather than a place-māhātmya.
None; it is a doctrinal statement about mortality and Vedic authority.