Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 37
सूत उवाच । एवमुक्त्वा चतुर्वक्त्रस्ततश्चादर्शनं गतः । कस्यचित्त्वथ कालस्य प्रेरितः कालधर्मणा । प्रोवाच सचिवान्सोऽथ पितुर्वैरमनुस्मरन्
sūta uvāca | evamuktvā caturvaktrastataścādarśanaṃ gataḥ | kasyacittvatha kālasya preritaḥ kāladharmaṇā | provāca sacivānso'tha piturvairamanusmaran
ಸೂತನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—ಹೀಗೆ ಹೇಳಿ ಚತುರ್ಮುಖ (ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ) ಅಂತರಧಾನನಾದನು. ಕೆಲಕಾಲದ ನಂತರ, ಕಾಲಧರ್ಮದಿಂದ ಪ್ರೇರಿತನಾಗಿ, ತಂದೆಯ ವೈರವನ್ನು ಸ್ಮರಿಸುತ್ತ ಅಂಧಕನು ಸಚಿವರನ್ನು ಉದ್ದೇಶಿಸಿ ಮಾತಾಡಿದನು।
Sūta
Scene: Brahmā (four-faced) finishes speaking and dissolves into light; the scene shifts to Andhaka in a council hall, shadowed by the looming presence of Time—suggested by a dark wheel or hourglass motif—before he addresses ministers.
FAQs
Even mighty beings are moved by Kāla (Time); remembrance of enmity binds one to conflict, while dharma asks for mastery over such impulses.
This verse is transitional narrative within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya; the tīrtha praise is contextual to the chapter rather than named explicitly in this single line.
No direct ritual (snāna, dāna, japa, vrata) is prescribed in this verse.
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