Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 68
एवं बहुविधं राज्यं चकार स दुरात्मवान् । ततः कालेन महता पंचत्वं प्राप दुर्मतिः
evaṃ bahuvidhaṃ rājyaṃ cakāra sa durātmavān | tataḥ kālena mahatā paṃcatvaṃ prāpa durmatiḥ
ഇങ്ങനെ ആ ദുരാത്മാവ് പലവിധ ദുഷ്കൃത്യങ്ങളാൽ രാജ്യം നടത്തി. പിന്നെ ദീർഘകാലം കഴിഞ്ഞപ്പോൾ ആ ദുര്ബുദ്ധി പഞ്ചത്വം പ്രാപിച്ചു.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) to the sages (deduced)
Tirtha: Kedāra (context)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Sages/pilgrims
Scene: A time-lapse moral panorama: the king’s reign shown in fragmented vignettes of wrongdoing, then a final still moment of death—body returning to elements, palace fading, time personified as a shadow moving across the scene.
FAQs
Power and time end in death; only dharma and devotion determine what follows beyond the body.
Not directly; the Kedāra māhātmya framework continues beyond this point.
None.