Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 21
अतीता ये विधातारो भविष्यंति च येऽधुना । तावत्तद्वर्त्तते नाम यावदन्योष्टवार्षिकः । संध्यासंध्यांशभेदेन विष्ण्वनंतसनातनाः
atītā ye vidhātāro bhaviṣyaṃti ca ye'dhunā | tāvattadvarttate nāma yāvadanyoṣṭavārṣikaḥ | saṃdhyāsaṃdhyāṃśabhedena viṣṇvanaṃtasanātanāḥ
अतीता ये विधातारः, ये चाधुना सन्ति, ये च भविष्यन्ति—तावत् तदेव नाम प्रवर्तते, यावदन्योऽष्टवार्षिकः कालचक्रः प्रवर्तते। संध्यासंध्यांशभेदेन स विष्णुरनन्तः सनातनश्च स्तूयते।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: A symbolic wheel of time: successive vidhātṛs (cosmic ordainers) pass like figures around a kala-chakra; at the center the Lord shines with three inscriptions—Viṣṇu, Ananta, Sanātana—while dawn and dusk bands (sandhyā) frame the scene.
FAQs
Divine Names are revealed according to cosmic cycles; remembering them aligns the devotee with eternal dharma beyond changing ages.
Prabhāsa Kṣetra (Prabhāsatīrtha region), within the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa’s Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya.
No explicit rite is prescribed here; the emphasis is on understanding and reciting the appropriate divine Names according to cosmic divisions.