Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 8
ईश्वर उवाच । प्रणवः सर्वदेवानामादिरेष प्रकीर्तितः । ब्रह्मा विष्णुः शिवश्चैव वसंति दयितायुताः
īśvara uvāca | praṇavaḥ sarvadevānāmādireṣa prakīrtitaḥ | brahmā viṣṇuḥ śivaścaiva vasaṃti dayitāyutāḥ
Īśvara bersabda: “Praṇava (Oṃ) dimasyhurkan sebagai sumber purba bagi semua dewa. Di dalamnya bersemayam Brahmā, Viṣṇu dan Śiva juga, bersama para permaisuri kesayangan mereka.”
Īśvara (Śiva)
Listener: Pārvatī
Scene: Īśvara explains the cosmic status of Oṃ: within the praṇava reside Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva and their consorts, as if the syllable is a luminous mandala containing the pantheon.
FAQs
Oṃ (Praṇava) is upheld as the primordial spiritual principle in which the major deities are understood to abide.
This verse is doctrinal within the Tīrthamāhātmya context; the specific tīrtha is not named in this shloka.
Implicitly, reverence for Praṇava is taught; no explicit vrata, dāna, or snāna is prescribed in this verse.