Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 16
तस्य देवाधिदेवस्य वेदगर्भस्य संयुगे । शङ्खचक्रधरस्येशा नाहं सर्वे सुरासुराः
tasya devādhidevasya vedagarbhasya saṃyuge | śaṅkhacakradharasyeśā nāhaṃ sarve surāsurāḥ
ในการศึกกับเทพเหนือเทพนั้น—พระวิษณุ ผู้เป็นครรภ์แห่งพระเวท ผู้ทรงสังข์และจักร—แม้เราก็ดี หรือเหล่าเทวะและอสูรรวมกันทั้งหมด ก็หาใช่ผู้เป็นนายเหนือพระองค์ไม่
Īśvara / Maheśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Kambu-tīrtha (foreshadowed; named explicitly in 120.20)
Type: ghat
Listener: Pārtha (address appears later in 120.20; discourse likely directed to him across the passage)
Scene: A cosmic battlefield tableau: Viṣṇu as Śaṅkha-cakra-dhara radiating Vedic light, while gods and asuras stand awed, acknowledging his unmasterable sovereignty.
FAQs
Cosmic power is subordinate to the sustaining Lord; the verse stresses reverence for Hari as the Vedic ground of order.
No specific site is named in this verse; it is theological within the Revā Khaṇḍa narrative.
None; it is a doctrinal clarification about Viṣṇu’s unconquerability in battle.