Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 76
अहं कृतयुगो देवि त्वं तु त्रेता निगद्यसे । युगोऽहं द्वापरः श्रीमांस्त्वं कलिः परमेश्वरि
ahaṃ kṛtayugo devi tvaṃ tu tretā nigadyase | yugo'haṃ dvāparaḥ śrīmāṃstvaṃ kaliḥ parameśvari
ஓ தேவி, நான் க்ருதயுகம்; நீ த்ரேதா என அழைக்கப்படுகிறாய். நான் ஸ்ரீமான் த்வாபரயுகம்; ஓ பரமேஸ்வரியே, நீ கலியுகம்.
Śiva (deduced from Śiva-Śakti identification in Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya context)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: The divine pair stands beside a great wheel of time divided into four segments labeled Kṛta, Tretā, Dvāpara, Kali; each segment shows characteristic scenes, while the deities remain unchanged, indicating transcendence.
FAQs
Time (the yugas) is not separate from the divine; the Supreme is present through every age and its qualities.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra is the setting of this māhātmya passage, framing the teaching within the site’s sacred greatness.
No direct ritual instruction appears; the verse provides a metaphysical identification of deity with cosmic time.