Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 76
अहं कृतयुगो देवि त्वं तु त्रेता निगद्यसे । युगोऽहं द्वापरः श्रीमांस्त्वं कलिः परमेश्वरि
ahaṃ kṛtayugo devi tvaṃ tu tretā nigadyase | yugo'haṃ dvāparaḥ śrīmāṃstvaṃ kaliḥ parameśvari
اے دیوی، میں کِرت یُگ ہوں؛ اور تم تریتا کہلاتی ہو۔ میں شریمان دواپر یُگ ہوں؛ اور تم، اے پرمیشوری، کَلی یُگ ہو۔
Śiva (deduced from Śiva-Śakti identification in Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya context)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: The divine pair stands beside a great wheel of time divided into four segments labeled Kṛta, Tretā, Dvāpara, Kali; each segment shows characteristic scenes, while the deities remain unchanged, indicating transcendence.
FAQs
Time (the yugas) is not separate from the divine; the Supreme is present through every age and its qualities.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra is the setting of this māhātmya passage, framing the teaching within the site’s sacred greatness.
No direct ritual instruction appears; the verse provides a metaphysical identification of deity with cosmic time.