Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 73
अग्नीशानेति देवेशि नामत्रितयमुच्यते । कल्पेकल्पे तु नामानि कथितुं नैव शक्यते । असंख्यत्वाच्च कल्पानां ब्रह्मणा च वरानने
agnīśāneti deveśi nāmatritayamucyate | kalpekalpe tu nāmāni kathituṃ naiva śakyate | asaṃkhyatvācca kalpānāṃ brahmaṇā ca varānane
ಹೇ ದೇವೇಶಿ, ‘ಅಗ್ನಿ’ ಮತ್ತು ‘ಈಶಾನ’ ಮೊದಲಾದಂತೆ ನಾಮತ್ರಯವನ್ನು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಆದರೆ ಕಲ್ಪದಿಂದ ಕಲ್ಪಕ್ಕೆ ಎಲ್ಲ ನಾಮಗಳನ್ನು ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ಹೇಳುವುದು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ; ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಕಲ್ಪಗಳು ಅಸಂಖ್ಯ, ಹೇ ವರಾನನೆ, ಬ್ರಹ್ಮನಿಗೂ ಸಹ.
Śiva (continuing explanation of divine names across kalpas)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (ananta-nāma contemplation)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī addressed as ‘devēśi/varānanā’
Scene: A teaching scene: Devī addressed as Devēśī listens while the speaker gestures to a scroll/sky filled with innumerable names; Brahmā appears in the background with manuscripts, indicating even he cannot finish the count; cosmic cycles shown as concentric wheels.
FAQs
The Divine is inexhaustible: names and forms vary across cosmic cycles, underscoring the limitless nature of Śiva’s manifestation.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra in the broader passage, where these names (Bhairava/Kālāgnirudra) are being contextualized.
None; it is a doctrinal statement about nāma (divine names) across kalpas.