Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 21
ब्रह्मा तेषां शतं यावत्स जीवति पितामहः । सांप्रतं चाष्टवर्षीयः षण्मासश्चैव संस्थितः
brahmā teṣāṃ śataṃ yāvatsa jīvati pitāmahaḥ | sāṃprataṃ cāṣṭavarṣīyaḥ ṣaṇmāsaścaiva saṃsthitaḥ
त्या (मानां)मध्ये पितामह ब्रह्मा शंभर (अशा) कालमानांपर्यंत जगतात; आणि सध्या ते आठ वर्षे व सहा महिने पूर्ण करून स्थित आहेत।
Sūta (deduced)
Scene: Brahmā seated on a lotus, with a vast calendar-like cosmic backdrop; a sage narrates that Brahmā lives for a hundred such measures and indicates the current 'age' of Brahmā as eight years and six months in divine reckoning.
FAQs
It expands perspective: even the creator’s lifespan is measured—encouraging humility and steadiness in dharma and pilgrimage.
Not specified in this verse; it provides cosmological framing within the chapter’s tīrtha discourse.
None; it is a doctrinal statement about Brahmā’s lifespan in the given scale.
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