Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 139
न हि पूर्वनिसर्गे वै विषमं पृथिवीतलम् । प्रविभागः पुराणां च ग्रामाणां चाथ विद्यते
na hi pūrvanisarge vai viṣamaṃ pṛthivītalam | pravibhāgaḥ purāṇāṃ ca grāmāṇāṃ cātha vidyate
ആദിസൃഷ്ടിയുടെ ആരംഭത്തിൽ ഭൂമിയുടെ ഉപരിതലം അസമമായിരുന്നില്ല; അപ്പോൾ നഗരങ്ങളുടെയും ഗ്രാമങ്ങളുടെയും വേർതിരിവോ അതിരുകളോ ഒന്നുമില്ലായിരുന്നു।
Īśvara (Śiva) as narrator
Tirtha: Prabhāsa (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A primordial, smooth earth-plane under vast sky; no cities, no villages, no roads—only an undivided landscape suggesting pre-human demarcation.
FAQs
Human social structures arise later; dharma guides their formation so that settlement and division serve collective welfare.
The teaching is embedded in the Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya, reinforcing Prabhāsa’s status as a witness to primordial and civilizational beginnings.
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