Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 73
अग्नीशानेति देवेशि नामत्रितयमुच्यते । कल्पेकल्पे तु नामानि कथितुं नैव शक्यते । असंख्यत्वाच्च कल्पानां ब्रह्मणा च वरानने
agnīśāneti deveśi nāmatritayamucyate | kalpekalpe tu nāmāni kathituṃ naiva śakyate | asaṃkhyatvācca kalpānāṃ brahmaṇā ca varānane
ഹേ ദേവേശി, ‘അഗ്നി’ ‘ഈശാന’ മുതലായ നാമങ്ങളുടെ ത്രയം ഇങ്ങനെ ഉച്ഛരിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു. എന്നാൽ കല്പം കല്പമായി എല്ലാ നാമങ്ങളും പൂർണ്ണമായി പറയാൻ കഴിയില്ല; കല്പങ്ങൾ അസംഖ്യം ആകയാൽ, ഹേ വരാനനേ, ബ്രഹ്മാവിനും പോലും.
Śiva (continuing explanation of divine names across kalpas)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (ananta-nāma contemplation)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī addressed as ‘devēśi/varānanā’
Scene: A teaching scene: Devī addressed as Devēśī listens while the speaker gestures to a scroll/sky filled with innumerable names; Brahmā appears in the background with manuscripts, indicating even he cannot finish the count; cosmic cycles shown as concentric wheels.
FAQs
The Divine is inexhaustible: names and forms vary across cosmic cycles, underscoring the limitless nature of Śiva’s manifestation.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra in the broader passage, where these names (Bhairava/Kālāgnirudra) are being contextualized.
None; it is a doctrinal statement about nāma (divine names) across kalpas.