Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 21
अतीता ये विधातारो भविष्यंति च येऽधुना । तावत्तद्वर्त्तते नाम यावदन्योष्टवार्षिकः । संध्यासंध्यांशभेदेन विष्ण्वनंतसनातनाः
atītā ye vidhātāro bhaviṣyaṃti ca ye'dhunā | tāvattadvarttate nāma yāvadanyoṣṭavārṣikaḥ | saṃdhyāsaṃdhyāṃśabhedena viṣṇvanaṃtasanātanāḥ
ಹಿಂದೆ ಕಳೆದ ವಿಧಾತೃಗಳು, ಈಗಿರುವವರು, ಮುಂದೆಯೂ ಆಗುವವರು—ಅಷ್ಟರವರೆಗೆ ಆ ವಿಶೇಷ ದಿವ್ಯ ನಾಮವೇ ಪ್ರಚಲಿತವಾಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ; ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ಎಂಟು ವರ್ಷದ ಚಕ್ರ ಉದಯಿಸುವವರೆಗೆ. ಸಂಧ್ಯಾ–ಸಂಧ್ಯಾಂಶ ಭೇದದಂತೆ ಆ ಪ್ರಭು ವಿಷ್ಣು, ಅನಂತ, ಸನಾತನ ಎಂದು ಸ್ತುತಿಸಲ್ಪಡುತ್ತಾನೆ.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: A symbolic wheel of time: successive vidhātṛs (cosmic ordainers) pass like figures around a kala-chakra; at the center the Lord shines with three inscriptions—Viṣṇu, Ananta, Sanātana—while dawn and dusk bands (sandhyā) frame the scene.
FAQs
Divine Names are revealed according to cosmic cycles; remembering them aligns the devotee with eternal dharma beyond changing ages.
Prabhāsa Kṣetra (Prabhāsatīrtha region), within the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa’s Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya.
No explicit rite is prescribed here; the emphasis is on understanding and reciting the appropriate divine Names according to cosmic divisions.