Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 8
योऽयं ब्रह्मा स्थितो विप्राः सांप्रतं सृष्टिकारकः । तस्यानेन प्रमाणेन जातं संवत्सराष्टकम्
yo'yaṃ brahmā sthito viprāḥ sāṃprataṃ sṛṣṭikārakaḥ | tasyānena pramāṇena jātaṃ saṃvatsarāṣṭakam
โอ้พราหมณ์ทั้งหลาย พรหมาผู้นี้ยืนอยู่บัดนี้ในฐานะผู้ก่อกำเนิดสรรพสร้าง—ตามมาตรานี้เอง สำหรับพระองค์ได้ล่วงไปแปดปีแล้ว
Skanda (deduced; exact speaker not in snippet)
Listener: Viprāḥ (explicitly addressed)
Scene: Brahmā seated/standing on a lotus emerging from the cosmic waters, with a subtle clockwork of celestial measures around him; sages (viprāḥ) listen as the narrator explains that ‘eight years’ have elapsed for Brahmā by that reckoning.
FAQs
Time governs even the creator’s activity; sacred tradition frames pilgrimage and dharma within the vastness of cosmic time.
Not named in this verse; it provides cosmological background within the Tīrthamāhātmya.
None.