Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 12
अथ कल्पशतस्यांते व्यतीते तं महीपतिम् । प्राह प्रजापतिः सेवावसरायातमात्मनः
atha kalpaśatasyāṃte vyatīte taṃ mahīpatim | prāha prajāpatiḥ sevāvasarāyātamātmanaḥ
ਜਦ ਸੌ ਕਲਪਾਂ ਦਾ ਅੰਤ ਹੋ ਗਿਆ, ਤਦ ਪ੍ਰਜਾਪਤੀ ਨੇ ਉਸ ਧਰਤੀਪਤੀ ਰਾਜੇ ਨੂੰ ਕਿਹਾ, ਜੋ ਸੇਵਾ ਦੇ ਨਿਯਤ ਸਮੇਂ ਆਪਣੇ ਆਪ ਉਸ ਕੋਲ ਆ ਪਹੁੰਚਿਆ ਸੀ।
Narrator (Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa-context within Māheśvarakhaṇḍa)
Listener: Indradyumna
Scene: In a luminous Brahmā/Prajāpati court beyond time, the king arrives at the exact ‘service hour’; Prajāpati addresses him as the kalpa-century completes, suggesting a cosmic clock turning.
FAQs
Time (kāla) governs even heavenly states; duty and service continue according to divine order.
No earthly tīrtha is specified; the setting is Prajāpati’s realm and the theme is cosmic time.
No explicit ritual; ‘sevā’ is presented as a dharmic obligation/role rather than a rite.