Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 6
नारायणस्य नाभ्यब्जाज्जातो देवश्चतुर्मुखः । तस्य दक्षोऽङ्गजो राजन् दक्षिणाङ्गुष्ठसम्भवः
nārāyaṇasya nābhyabjājjāto devaścaturmukhaḥ | tasya dakṣo'ṅgajo rājan dakṣiṇāṅguṣṭhasambhavaḥ
نارائن کی ناف کے کنول سے چہار رُخی دیوتا (برہما) پیدا ہوا۔ اے راجن! اسی سے دکش پیدا ہوا، جو دائیں انگوٹھے سے ظاہر ہوا۔
Mārkaṇḍeya (by immediate narrative continuity)
Listener: A king (rājan)
Scene: Vast cosmic ocean: Nārāyaṇa reclining on Śeṣa; from his navel rises a lotus bearing four-faced Brahmā; from Brahmā’s right thumb emerges Dakṣa as a radiant progenitor.
FAQs
Purāṇic cosmology links divine order (creation and lineage) to dharma, grounding sacred places and practices in a cosmic frame.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it provides mythic background within the Devatīrtha–Śrīpati narrative arc.
None; it is genealogical-cosmological exposition.