Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 11
अस्यैवाक्षरमाहात्म्यं नालं वक्तुं चतुर्मुखः । श्रुतयो यत्र सिद्धांतं गताः परमनिर्वृताः
asyaivākṣaramāhātmyaṃ nālaṃ vaktuṃ caturmukhaḥ | śrutayo yatra siddhāṃtaṃ gatāḥ paramanirvṛtāḥ
اسی حرفی منتر کی عظمت کو چار چہرے والے برہما بھی پوری طرح بیان نہیں کر سکتے۔ وہیں ویدوں کی شروتیاں اپنے آخری نتیجے تک پہنچ کر پرم شانتی میں ٹھہر جاتی ہیں۔
Deductive attribution: Purāṇic narrator in Brahmottara-khaṇḍa (likely Sūta/compilational voice)
Scene: Four-faced Brahmā seated on a lotus, scrolls of Veda unfurling and dissolving into a luminous five-syllable mantra; the syllables become a calm ocean of light where sound subsides into silence.
FAQs
The Śiva-mantra is portrayed as so profound that even Brahmā cannot exhaust its praise; it aligns with the Vedas’ ultimate purport.
No location is specified; the verse glorifies the mantra as the ‘end’ (siddhānta) of Śruti.
Implicitly, reverent engagement with the mantra; no separate rite (snāna/dāna) is stated.