Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 98
एवं सपादाः पञ्चैते लक्षाः पुण्याः प्रकीर्तिताः । पुरातनस्य कल्पस्य पुराणे तु विदुर्बुधाः
evaṃ sapādāḥ pañcaite lakṣāḥ puṇyāḥ prakīrtitāḥ | purātanasya kalpasya purāṇe tu vidurbudhāḥ
یوں یہ ساڑھے پانچ لاکھ (پانچ لاکھ اور پاؤ) مقدس کہے گئے ہیں؛ اور اہلِ دانش انہیں پران میں قدیم کلپ سے متعلق جانتے ہیں۔
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) addressing sages (deduced)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A cosmic ledger-like scene: sages point to a vast scroll listing ‘five lakhs and a quarter’ sacred items/places, with a faint backdrop of kalpa-cycles (lotus, cosmic ocean, time-wheel).
FAQs
Purāṇas preserve sacred memory across kalpas, and even numerical traditions are treated as part of that transmitted sanctity.
No specific tīrtha is named; the verse continues the Prabhāsa-kṣetra māhātmya’s scriptural framing.
None; it is a doctrinal note on Purāṇic knowledge and classification.