Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 11
अदितिश्च दितिश्चैव विनता कद्रुरेव च । सिंहिका सुप्रभा चैव उलूकी या वरानने
aditiśca ditiścaiva vinatā kadrureva ca | siṃhikā suprabhā caiva ulūkī yā varānane
اَدِتی اور دِتی ہی، اور وِنَتا اور کَدرُو بھی؛ نیز سِمہِکا، سُپرَبھا اور اُلوکی—یہ سب، اے خوش رُو، (انہی میں سے تھیں)۔
Sūta (deduced from Purāṇic māhātmya narration style within Prabhāsakhaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (varānane)
Scene: A hermitage scene with sage Kāśyapa; around him stand the principal wives as archetypal mothers: Aditi radiant and sattvic; Diti more fierce; Vinatā with bird motifs; Kadrū with serpent motifs; Siṃhikā shadowy-luminous; Suprabhā glowing; Ulūkī with owl emblem—each indicating the progeny class they generate.
FAQs
Purāṇas map moral and cosmic diversity through lineages—multiple currents of beings arise within a single dharmic cosmos.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra remains the overarching frame; the verse itself is a lineage-catalogue passage.
None; it is nominative genealogy supporting broader Purāṇic teaching.