Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 47
सद्योऽथ नवमः प्रोक्तः ईशानो दशमः स्मृतः । ध्यान एकादशः प्रोक्तस्तथा सारस्वतोऽपरः
sadyo'tha navamaḥ proktaḥ īśāno daśamaḥ smṛtaḥ | dhyāna ekādaśaḥ proktastathā sārasvato'paraḥ
پھر ‘سَدْیَ’ کو نواں کہا گیا ہے؛ ‘اِیشان’ دسویں کے طور پر یاد کیا جاتا ہے۔ ‘دھیان’ گیارھواں بتایا گیا ہے، اور اس کے بعد دوسرا ‘سارسوت’ آتا ہے۔
Skanda (deduced from Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya narrative context)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A sage at Prabhāsa recites a scroll-like list of kalpa-nāmas; behind him, Somnātha’s liṅga and the sea-horizon suggest cosmic time flowing as waves; the names ‘Sadya, Īśāna, Dhyāna, Sārasvata’ appear as luminous syllables.
FAQs
It presents time as sacred and structured; the named Kalpas remind the listener that creation unfolds through divinely ordered phases.
The larger narrative is the glory of Prabhāsakṣetra; this verse is part of a cosmology section rather than a site-description.
None; it is an enumeration of Kalpa-names.