Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 6
नारायणस्य नाभ्यब्जाज्जातो देवश्चतुर्मुखः । तस्य दक्षोऽङ्गजो राजन् दक्षिणाङ्गुष्ठसम्भवः
nārāyaṇasya nābhyabjājjāto devaścaturmukhaḥ | tasya dakṣo'ṅgajo rājan dakṣiṇāṅguṣṭhasambhavaḥ
നാരായണന്റെ നാഭി-പദ്മത്തിൽ നിന്ന് ചതുര്മുഖ ദേവൻ (ബ്രഹ്മാവ്) ജനിച്ചു. ഹേ രാജാവേ, അവനിൽ നിന്ന് ദക്ഷൻ ജനിച്ചു—വലത് അങ്കുഷ്ഠത്തിൽ നിന്ന് ഉദ്ഭവിച്ചവൻ.
Mārkaṇḍeya (by immediate narrative continuity)
Listener: A king (rājan)
Scene: Vast cosmic ocean: Nārāyaṇa reclining on Śeṣa; from his navel rises a lotus bearing four-faced Brahmā; from Brahmā’s right thumb emerges Dakṣa as a radiant progenitor.
FAQs
Purāṇic cosmology links divine order (creation and lineage) to dharma, grounding sacred places and practices in a cosmic frame.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it provides mythic background within the Devatīrtha–Śrīpati narrative arc.
None; it is genealogical-cosmological exposition.