Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 42
एवमंशाश्च त्यायाश्चत्वारः कल्पिताः सुरैः । निवासमकरोत्सद्यस्तेषुतेषु द्विजोत्तमाः
evamaṃśāśca tyāyāścatvāraḥ kalpitāḥ suraiḥ | nivāsamakarotsadyasteṣuteṣu dvijottamāḥ
ഇങ്ങനെ ദേവന്മാർ നാല് അംശങ്ങളും അവയ്ക്കനുസൃതമായ നാല് വിഭജനങ്ങളും നിശ്ചയിച്ചു; ഹേ ദ്വിജോത്തമാ! അവർ ഉടൻ തന്നെ അതത് വാസസ്ഥാനങ്ങളിൽ പാർപ്പുറപ്പിച്ചു.
Narrator (Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa style frame within Māheśvarakhaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Kedāra (with four associated abodes implied)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dvijottama (explicitly addressed)
Scene: The gods apportion four shares and designate four abodes; the ‘best of twice-born’ is addressed as the narrative zooms out from dialogue to a schematic sacred map of residences.
FAQs
The cosmos is depicted as morally structured: even heavy transgressions are managed through divinely ordered allocations that restore balance.
The immediate verse is structural-mythic; the larger Kedārakhaṇḍa context links such order to sacred geography and purification around Kedāra.
None; it describes a divine arrangement and the taking of designated ‘residences’ by the allotted portions.