Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 61
अहं सर्वाणि बीजानि प्राक्सन्ध्यासूदिते रवौ । एतद्वै कारणं सर्वं रहस्यं कथितं परम्
ahaṃ sarvāṇi bījāni prāksandhyāsūdite ravau | etadvai kāraṇaṃ sarvaṃ rahasyaṃ kathitaṃ param
प्रातःसंध्येला सूर्य उदित होताच मीच सर्व बीजें आहे. हेच सर्वांचे कारण; हे परम रहस्य सांगितले आहे.
Brahmā
Tirtha: Sandhyā-kāla (as sacred threshold) within Revā context
Type: kshetra
Listener: Tapasvinī / Mahāvratā (ascetic lady)
Scene: At the cusp of dawn, before sunrise, Brahmā reveals the ‘seed of all’ doctrine; the horizon glows faintly, a riverbank hermitage is still, and the listener sits in austerity.
FAQs
All origination is rooted in a divine causal principle; contemplation of beginnings (bīja) refines spiritual insight.
The Revā/Narmadā setting continues as the sacred backdrop for revealing ‘parama-rahasya’ (supreme secret).
No explicit rite is prescribed; the mention of sandhyā suggests the sanctity of twilight practice, but it is not instructed here.