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
Gaano man karami ang mga tagapag-ayos ng sansinukob (vidhātṛ) na lumipas, ang mga naririto ngayon, o ang darating pa—gayon katagal nananatiling umiiral ang gayong banal na Pangalan, hanggang sumapit ang isa pang siklong walong taon. Kaya, ayon sa mga hati ng mga sandaling takipsilim at sa mga bahagi nito, ang Panginoon ay pinupuri bilang Viṣṇu, Ananta, at Sanātana.
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.