Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 17
तथाऽक्षयास्तु मे देव सृष्टिस्तव प्रसादतः । या कृता न करिष्यामि भूयो ऽन्यां पद्मसंभव
tathā'kṣayāstu me deva sṛṣṭistava prasādataḥ | yā kṛtā na kariṣyāmi bhūyo 'nyāṃ padmasaṃbhava
یوں ہی ہو۔ اے دیو! تمہارے پرساد سے میری سृष्टی اَکشَے اور قائم رہے۔ اے پدم سمبھَو (برہما)! جو بنا دی گئی ہے، میں پھر کوئی اور سृष्टی نہیں بناؤں گا۔
Viśvāmitra (inferred from reply to Brahmā; vocative padma-saṃbhava)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Brahmā (Padmasaṃbhava)
Scene: Viśvāmitra, now composed, accepts Brahmā’s word and requests that his created arrangement remain imperishable by divine grace, vowing not to create another.
FAQs
Dharma culminates in reconciliation: power yields to divine order while the fruit of effort is preserved through grace.
No specific tīrtha is named; the verse concludes a cosmological dispute within the māhātmya narrative frame.
None; it is a pledge to refrain from further creation.