Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 10
अत्रैवैषा युगावस्था चतुर्वर्णश्च वै जनः । चत्वारि त्रीणि च द्वे च तथैवैक शरच्छतम्
atraivaiṣā yugāvasthā caturvarṇaśca vai janaḥ | catvāri trīṇi ca dve ca tathaivaika śaracchatam
ഇവിടെയേ യುಗങ്ങളുടെ ക്രമവ്യവസ്ഥയും, ഇവിടെയേ മനുഷ്യർ ചതുര്വർണ്ണമായി വിന്യസ്തരുമാണ്. കൃത, ത്രേതാ, ദ്വാപര, കലി—ഈ യುಗങ്ങളുടെ അളവ് ക്രമമായി നാല്, മൂന്ന്, രണ്ട്, ഒന്ന് ‘ശരദ്-ശതം’ എന്നു പറയപ്പെടുന്നു.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (addressed as ‘devi’)
Scene: A sacred narrator in Prabhāsa explains the four yugas as descending measures (4-3-2-1), with a cosmic wheel of time behind, and the four varṇas arranged in orderly quadrants, all anchored to a luminous coastal kṣetra.
FAQs
Time (yugas) and society (varṇas) are portrayed as dharmic structures within which human life is to be lived responsibly.
No specific tīrtha; the verse sets the dharmic-cosmological background for the Prabhāsa-kṣetra glorification.
None; it states yuga and social-order concepts.