Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 42
कल्पेकल्पे पृथग्भावं कारणैरस्ति भामिनि । असंख्यातं च तद्वक्तुं शक्यं नैव मया प्रिये
kalpekalpe pṛthagbhāvaṃ kāraṇairasti bhāmini | asaṃkhyātaṃ ca tadvaktuṃ śakyaṃ naiva mayā priye
اے روشن رو! ہر ہر کلپ میں سببوں کے اختلاف سے حالت جدا جدا ہوتی ہے۔ اور وہ سبب بے شمار ہیں؛ اس لیے، اے محبوبہ، میرے لیے ان سب کا بیان کرنا ممکن نہیں۔
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: Śiva gestures toward the immensity of kalpas: each cycle differs, causes are countless; the scene expands from intimate dialogue to a cosmic panorama of repeating worlds and moons.
FAQs
Reality unfolds across vast cycles; humility is needed because cosmic causation is multi-layered and immeasurable.
Prabhāsakṣetra; the discourse occurs within its māhātmya narrative setting.
None; it is a cosmological clarification about kalpas and causality.