[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 16.19 # Skandapurana 16.19 Skandapurāṇa 16.19 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.19.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.1) .. devyuvāca .. .. yadyevaṃ sakalaścaṃdraḥ kathaṃ na vidhṛtastvayā .. antabhāve kalānāṃ tatkāraṇaṃ kathaya prabho .. 1 .. > The Goddess said: / If it is so, why is the moon not borne in full by you? / With respect to the inclusion of the digits, tell me the reason for that, O Lord. 1. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.2) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. amā ṣoḍaśabhedena devi proktā mahākalā .. saṃsthitā paramā māyā dehināṃ deha dhāriṇī .. 2 .. > Īśvara said: / The Great Digit, O Goddess, is declared to be sixteenfold as Amā. / Present as the supreme Māyā, she supports the bodies of embodied beings. 2. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.3) amādipaurṇamāsyaṃtā yā eva śaśinaḥ kalāḥ .. tithayastāḥ samākhyātāḥ ṣoḍaśaiva prakīrtitāḥ .. 3 .. > The digits of the moon that begin with the new moon and end with the full moon— / those are named lunar days, proclaimed to be sixteen indeed. 3. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.4) amā sūkṣmā parā śaktiḥ sā tvaṃ devi prakīrtitā .. pralayotpattiyogena sthitāḥ kālakramoditāḥ ..4.. > Amā is the subtle supreme power; you are proclaimed to be that, O Goddess! / United with dissolution and origination, they stand manifested by the order of time. 4. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.5) ṣoḍaśaiva svarā ye tu ādyāḥ sṛṣṭayaṃtakāḥ priye .. kālasyāvayavāste ca vijñeyāḥ kālavedibhiḥ .. 5 .. > The sixteen vowels, which begin with creation and end with dissolution, O beloved, / are to be known by knowers of time as the limbs of time. 5. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.6) truṭirlavo nimeṣaśca kalā kāṣṭhā muhūrtakam.. rātryahaḥpakṣamāsāśca ayanaṃ vatsaraṃ yugam .. 6 .. > A truṭi, a lava, a nimeṣa, a kalā, a kāṣṭhā, a muhūrta, / night, day, a fortnight, months, an ayana, a year, a yuga, 6. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.7) manvataraṃ tathā kalpaṃ mahākalpaṃ ca ṣoḍaśa .. kalā visarjanī yā tu jīvamāśritya vartate ..7.. > a manvantara, a kalpa, and a mahākalpa are the sixteen. / That which is the projecting digit, resting upon the living soul, 7. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.9) sā sṛjatyakhilaṃ viśvaṃ viṣuvadvayasaṃyutam .. tathā saṃvaraṇī yā tu viśvaṃ saṃharate priye .. .. netrapātāccaturbhāgastruṭikālo nigadyate .. tasmācca dviguṇaṃ viddhi nimiṣaṃ tanmaheśvari .. 9 .. > she creates the whole universe along with the two equinoxes. / Likewise, that which is the withdrawing \[digit\] dissolves the universe, O beloved. / A fourth part of the wink of an eye is called the time of a truṭi; / and know a nimiṣa to be twice that, O Maheśvarī! 9. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.10) nimiṣaistriṃśadbhiḥ kāṣṭhā tābhirviṃśatibhiḥ kalā.. viṃśatikalo muhūrtaḥ syāddinaṃ paṃcadaśaistu taiḥ..7.1.19.10... > A kāṣṭhā is made of thirty nimiṣas; a kalā is made of twenty of them; / a muhūrta consists of twenty kalās; and a day consists of fifteen of those. 10. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.11) dinamānā niśā jñeyā ahorātraṃ dvayādbhavet . taiḥ paṃcadaśabhiḥ pakṣo dvipakṣo māsa ucyate ..11.. > The measure of night is known to be equal to day; a day-and-night is made of both. / A fortnight consists of fifteen of those; a month is said to consist of two fortnights. 11. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.12) māsaiścaivāyanaṃ ṣaḍbhirvarṣaṃ syādayanadvaye .. catvāriṃśacca lakṣāṇi lakṣāṇāṃ tritayaṃ punaḥ..12.. > An ayana consists of six months; a year is in two ayanas. / Forty lakhs and three lakhs again, 12. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.13) viṃśatiśca sahasrāṇi jñeyaṃ sauraṃ caturyugam.. caturyugaikasaptatyā manvaṃtaramudāhṛtam..13.. > and twenty thousand \[solar years\] are to be known as a solar four-yuga cycle. / By seventy-one four-yuga cycles a manvantara is declared. 13. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.14) aiṃdrametadbhavedāyuḥ samāsāṃtaṃ ca kīrtitam.. caturdaśendraiḥ pralīnaiḥ kalpaṃ brahmadinaṃ bhavet ..14.. > This is the lifespan of an Indra, proclaimed as the completion of a summary. / When fourteen Indras have dissolved, a kalpa becomes a day of Brahmā. 14. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.15) rātriśca tāvatī caiva caturyugasahasrikā.. anena dinamānena śatābdaṃ jīvati priye ..15.. > And the night is of equal length, consisting of a thousand four-yuga cycles. / By this measure of a day, he lives for a hundred years, O beloved. 15. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.16) mamaiva nimiṣārddhena sahasrāṇi caturddaśa .. vinaśyaṃti tato viṣṇorasaṃkhyātāḥ pitāmahāḥ ..16.. > In half a wink of my eye, fourteen thousand / \[Brahmās\] perish, and countless grandfathers after Viṣṇu. 16. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.17) evaṃ krameṇa deveśi samutpannamidaṃ jagat .. śaśisūryavibhāgena citrarūpamanaṃtakam ..17.. > In this order, O Goddess of Gods, this universe arose, / manifold in form and endless through the division of moon and sun. 17. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.18) kalā devi yadādyaṃtamanādimajamavyayam.. tadānvitaḥ śaśī tasyāmadhomukhamavasthitaḥ .. 18 .. > When the digit is without beginning or end, unborn and imperishable, O Goddess, / then, connected with it, the moon rests facing downward in it. 18. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.19) evaṃ kṣayodayaṃ jñeyaṃ caṃdrārkābhyāmavasthitam .. sṛṣṭikramaṃ mayā proktaṃ saṃhāramadhunā śṛṇu .. 19 .. > Thus the wane and rise established through the moon and sun are to be known. / The order of creation has been spoken by me; hear now of dissolution. 19. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.19\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.19_1) mahākalpaṃ hataṃ kalpaiḥ kalpaṃ manvaṃtarairhatam .. māsaṃ pakṣāhataṃ kṛtvā taṃ cāhorātribhājitam ..7.1.19.2... > A mahākalpa is destroyed by kalpas; a kalpa is destroyed by manvantaras; / having multiplied a month by fortnights, and divided that by days and nights, 20. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.21) ahorātraṃ muhūrtena muhūrtaṃ tu kalāhatam.. kalāṃ kāṣṭhā hatāṃ kṛtvā kāṣṭhāṃ nimiṣabhājitām .. 21 .. > a day-and-night by a muhūrta, and a muhūrta struck by kalās; / having made a kalā struck by kāṣṭhās, and divided a kāṣṭhā by nimiṣas, 21. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.22) nimiṣaṃ ca lavairhatvā lavaṃ truṭivibhājitam .. tadatītaṃ praśāṃtaṃ ca nirvikāramalakṣaṇam ..22.. > and having struck a nimiṣa by lavas, and divided a lava by truṭis; / that which transcends that is tranquil, changeless, and without characteristics. 22. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.23) tasya ceyaṃ parā māyā kalā śirasi dhāritā .. sā śaktirdevadevasya viśvākārā parā priye .. mohayitvā tu saṃtānaṃ saṃsārayati pārvati ..23.. > And this supreme Māyā of his, a digit, is borne upon \[my\] head. / She is the supreme power of the God of Gods, whose form is the universe, O beloved; / having deluded progeny, she causes it to transmigrate in saṃsāra, O Pārvatī. 23. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.24) 30a evametajjagaddevi utpattisthitilakṣaṇam .. yatraivotpadyate kṛtsnaṃ punastatraiva līyate .. 24 .. > Thus, O Goddess, is this world, characterized by origination and maintenance; / where the whole is born, there indeed it dissolves again. 24. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.25) seyaṃ māyāmayī śaktiḥ śuddhāśuddhasvarūpiṇī .. caṃdrarūpā sthitā sā tu tava devi prakāśayet.. 25 .. > This power composed of Māyā, having the nature of the pure and the impure, / abiding in the form of the moon, reveals \[herself\] to you, O Goddess. 25. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.26) .. devyuvāca .. .. paṃcāgninopasantaptā varṣakoṭīranekadhā .. tattapaḥ saphalaṃ jātaṃ me'dya deva jagatpate .. 26 .. > The Goddess said: / Tormented by the five fires for crores of years in various ways, / that austerity of mine has borne fruit today, O God, Lord of the Universe! 26. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.27) sṛṣṭiyogo mayā jñātaḥ saṃhāraśca maheśvara .. candrotpattisvarūpaṃ ca kalāmānaṃ tathaiva ca .. 27 .. > The process of creation has been understood by me, and dissolution, O Maheśvara, / as well as the nature of the moon's origin and the measure of the digits. 27. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.28) adhunā mama deveśa sandeho hṛdi saṃsthitaḥ .. kautūhalaṃ paraṃ deva kathayasva maheśvara .. 28 .. > Now a doubt rests in my heart, O Lord of Gods; / tell me of a great wonder, O God, O Maheśvara! 28. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.29) amṛtādeva saṃbhūtaḥ sarvāhlādakaraḥ śaśī .. priyaśca tava deveśa vallabhaścaṃdramāstathā .. 29 .. > The moon, born indeed from nectar, causes delight to all; / and he is dear to you, O Lord of Gods, the moon is your favorite. 29. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.29\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.29_2) caṃdre ca cadi ityeṣa hlādane dhāturiṣyate.. śuklatve cāpatattve ca mayā tveṣa vibhāvyate ..7.1.19.3... > And in the word 'candra', the root 'cadi' is accepted in the sense of gladdening. / But in whiteness and in the nature of water, it is conceived by me. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.31) sarvauṣadhīnāmadhipaḥ pitṝṇāṃ prīṇanaṃ param .. tadāśrayaśca tvadbhaktastva tsevātatparaḥ śaśī .. 31 .. > The moon is the lord of all medicinal herbs, the supreme delight of the ancestors, / devoted to you, having refuge in you, and intent on your service. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.32) tathāpi sakalaṃko'yaṃ kautukaṃ kurute mama .. devi brahmāṃḍasaṃghaṭṭamālāmaṃḍitaśekharaḥ .. 32 .. > Even so, this spotted \[moon\] causes me astonishment. / O goddess, his crest is adorned with the garland of cosmic collisions, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.33) śīrṣe tava niviṣṭasya kaṣṭaṃ caṃdrasya cedyadi .. tarhi nātha na śocyā vai saṃsāre duḥkhabhāginaḥ .. 33 .. > If there is distress even for the moon seated upon your head, / then, O Lord, those who suffer grief in worldly existence are truly not to be pitied. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.34) na cāsti triṣu lokeṣu na caitatsaṃbhaviṣyati .. yatra śakto bhavatkartuṃ duḥkhasyāsya ca saṃkṣayam.. 34 .. > For there is no one in the three worlds, nor will there ever be, / who would be capable of causing the destruction of this grief. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.35) sarveṣāṃ vartate śaṃkā yathā mama maheśvara .. utpannaṃ kāraṇaṃ kiṃtadyena somasya lāṃchanam .. 35 .. > Doubt exists for everyone just as it does for me, O Maheśvara. / What is that cause which arose, by which the spot of Soma occurred? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.36) kimetatkāraṇaṃ deva kathayasva maheśvara .. amṛte saṃbhavo yasya kathaṃ tasyāpi lāṃchanam.. 36 .. > What is this reason, O God? Tell me, O Maheśvara. / How can there be a spot even for him whose origin is in nectar? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.37) priyaśca tava deveśa lāṃchanaṃ cāpi tiṣṭhati .. kautūhalaṃ paraṃ deva tattvaṃ me vaktumarhasi .. 37 .. > And he is dear to you, O Lord of the gods, yet the spot remains. / My curiosity is great, O God; you ought to tell me the truth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.38) evamuktaḥ sa pārvatyā devadevo maheśvaraḥ .. uvāca paramaprītaḥ premṇā śailasutāṃ prabhuḥ .. 38 .. > Addressed thus by Pārvatī, the God of gods, Maheśvara, / the Lord, highly pleased, spoke with love to the daughter of the mountain: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.39) .. īśvara uvāca .. kiṃ te devi mahāśaṃkādyotpannā varavarṇini .. mamopari na karttavyā nirudvignā bhava priye .. pitustava prabhāvena lāṃchanaṃ śaśino'bhavat .. 39 .. > Īśvara said: / Why has this great doubt arisen for you today, O lady of excellent complexion? / It should not be directed against me; be free from anxiety, my dear. / Through the influence of your father, the moon came to have a spot. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.40) bhāvitvātkarmaṇo devi dakṣasyājñāvyatikramāt .. samaṃ varttasva bhāryābhirityuktaḥ śaśalāṃchanaḥ .. 7.1.19.40 .. > Due to the inevitability of past actions, O goddess, and from transgressing Dakṣa's command, / the hare-marked \[moon\] was told: 'Treat \[all\] your wives equally!' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.41) tadvākyamanyathā cakre tataḥ śaptaḥ śaśī priye.. idaṃ pṛṣṭaṃ tu yaddevi tvayā lāṃchanakāraṇam .. 41 .. > He violated that word, and therefore the moon was cursed, my dear. / But as for this reason for the spot about which you have asked, O goddess, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.42) kalpekalpe pṛthagbhāvaṃ kāraṇairasti bhāmini .. asaṃkhyātaṃ ca tadvaktuṃ śakyaṃ naiva mayā priye .. 42 .. > in kalpa after kalpa, there is a distinct condition due to various causes, O spirited lady; / and that is countless, and it is impossible for me to recount it, my dear. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.43) asaṃkhyeyāścandramasaḥ saṃbhavaṃti punaḥpunaḥ .. vinaśyaṃti ca deveśi sarvamanvantarāntaram ..43 .. > Countless moons come into being again and again, / and they perish, O ruler of the gods, across all the intervals between Manus. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.44) asaṃkhyātāśca kalpākhyā asaṃkhyātāḥ pitāmahāḥ .. harayaścāpyasaṃkhyātā eka eva maheśvaraḥ .. 44 .. > Countless are the names of the kalpas, countless are the Pitāmahas, / and the Haris too are countless; Maheśvara alone is one. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.45) koṭikoṭyayutānyatra brahmāṇḍāni mama priye .. jalabudbudavaddevi saṃjātāni tu līlayā.. 45.. > Tens of thousands of crores of eggs of Brahmā are here, my dear; / like water bubbles, O goddess, they have arisen simply in sport. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.46) tatratatra caturvaktrā brahmāṇo harayo bhavāḥ.. sṛṣṭāḥ pradhānena tadā labdhā śaṃbhostu saṃnidhiḥ..46.. > Here and there, four-faced Brahmās, Haris, and Bhavas / were created by Pradhāna at that time, and obtained proximity to Śambhu. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.47) layaṃ caiva tathānyonyamādyaṃtaṃ prakaroti ca.. sargasaṃhārasaṃsthānāṃ karttā devo maheśvaraḥ..47.. > And in the same way, he brings about mutual dissolution, beginning and end. / The god Maheśvara is the maker of creation, destruction, and maintenance. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.48) sarge ca rajasā pṛktaḥ sattvasthaḥ paripālane.. pratisarge tamoyuktaḥ so'haṃ devi tridhā sthitaḥ..48.. > Joined with rajas in creation, situated in sattva during preservation, / endowed with tamas in cosmic reabsorption, thus I remain threefold, O goddess. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.49) tasmānmāheśvaro brahmā brahmaṇo'dhipatiḥ śivaḥ .. sadāśivo bhavedviṣṇurbrahmā sarvātmako hyataḥ .. 49 .. > Therefore Brahmā is of Maheśvara; Śiva is the master of Brahmā; / Sadāśiva becomes Viṣṇu; and hence Brahmā is the self of all. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.50) sa eva bhagavānrudro viṣṇurviśva jagatprabhuḥ .. asminnaṇḍe tvimelokā antarviśvamidaṃjagat .. 7.1.19.50 .. > He alone is the Lord Rudra, Viṣṇu, and the ruler of the universe. / In this cosmic egg are these worlds, and within it is this whole universe. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.51) candrasūryagrahā devi brahmāṇḍe'sminmanasvini .. saṃkhyātuṃ naiva śakyante ye bhaviṣyaṃti ye gatāḥ .. 51 .. > The moons, suns, and planets in this cosmic egg, O wise goddess, / those that will be and those that have passed, cannot be counted at all. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.52) asminvārāhakalpe tu vartamāne manasvini .. ṣaḍatītā mahādevi rohiṇīpatayaḥ purā .. 52 .. > In this present Vārāhakalpa, however, O wise one, / six husbands of Rohiṇī have passed away in the past, O great goddess. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.53) saptamo'yaṃ mahādevi vartate'mṛtasaṃbhavaḥ .. dakṣaśāpena yo devi saṃkṣīṇo dṛśyate'dhunā .. 53 .. > This seventh one, born from nectar, is present now, O great goddess, / who is seen now wasted away due to Dakṣa's curse, O goddess. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.54) atha dvitīye saṃprāpte parārddhe caiva vedhasaḥ .. tasya triṃśattime kalpe pitṛ kalpeti viśrute .. 54 .. > Now, when the second half of the life of Vedhas had arrived, / in his thirtieth kalpa known as the Pitṛkalpa, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.55) svāyaṃbhuveṃ'tare prāpte tasyādau tvaṃ satī kila .. tasminkāle mahādevi yobhūddakṣaḥ pitā tava .. 55 .. > when the Svāyambhuva interval had arrived, you were indeed Satī at its beginning. / At that time, O great goddess, he who was Dakṣa was your father. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.56) prāṇātprajāpaterjanma tasya dakṣasya kīrtitam .. asminmanvantare devi dakṣaḥ prācetaso'bhavat .. 56 .. > The birth of that Dakṣa is proclaimed to be from the breath of Prajāpati. / In this Manvantara, O goddess, Dakṣa was born of Pracatas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.57) aṃguṣṭhāddakṣiṇāddakṣo bhaviṣyatyadhunā priye .. yugeyuge bhavantyete sarve dakṣādayo dvijāḥ .. 57 .. > Now, my dear, Dakṣa will be born from the right thumb. / In every yuga, all these twice-born ones such as Dakṣa come into being, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.58) punaścaiva vinaśyanti vidvāṃstatra na muhyati .. tasyāpamānāttvaṃ devi dehaṃ tatyaktha vai purā .. 58 .. > and then they perish again; a wise person is not bewildered by this. / Because of insult from him, O goddess, you abandoned your body in the past. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.59) tāvadviyukto'haṃ devi tvayā mukto'bhavaṃ purā .. yāvadvarāhakalpasya cākṣuṣasyāntaraṃ priye .. 59 .. > For so long was I separated from you, abandoned by you in the past, O goddess, / until the Cākṣuṣa interval of the Varāhakalpa, my dear. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.60) ekaviṃśo manuścāyaṃ kalpe vārāhasaṃjñake .. kalpekalpe mahādevi bhavennāmāntaraṃ tava .. 7.1.19.60 .. > And this Manu is the twenty-first in the kalpa named Vārāha. / In kalpa after kalpa, O great goddess, your name would be different. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.61) asminkalpe tu vārāhe himavattapasārjjite .. saṃbhūtā pārvatī devi cākṣuṣasyāṃtare gate .. 61 .. > In this Vārāha kalpa, however, gained through the austerity of Himavat, / you were born as the goddess Pārvatī when the Cākṣuṣa interval had passed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.62) brahmaṇo dinamekaṃ tu ṣaṇmāsena tavāvadhiḥ .. tvaṃ viyuktā mayā sārddhaṃ dakṣakopena bhāmini .. 62 .. > One day of Brahmā, for the span of six months, was the limit for you; / you were separated from me, O spirited lady, through Dakṣa's anger. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.63) tava krodhena ye śaptā ṛṣayo vai mayā purā .. te'pi devi tvayā sārddhaṃ jātā vaivasvateṃtare .. 63 .. > The seers who were cursed by me in the past on account of your wrath, / they too, O goddess, were born along with you in the Vaivasvata interval: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.64) bhṛguraṃgirā marīcistu pulastyaḥ pulahaḥ kratuḥ .. atriścaiva vasiṣṭhaśca aṣṭau te brahmaṇaḥ sutāḥ .. 64 .. > Bhṛgu, Aṅgiras, Marīci, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, / Atri, and Vasiṣṭha—those eight sons of Brahmā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.65) dakṣasya yajñe te śaptāḥ pūrvaṃ svāyaṃbhuventare .. jātā devi punaste vai kalpesmiṃścākṣuṣe gate .. 65 .. > They were cursed previously in Dakṣa's sacrifice during the Svāyambhuva interval; / they were born again, O goddess, in this kalpa when the Cākṣuṣa \[interval\] had passed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.66) devasya mahato yajñe vāruṇīṃ bibhratastanum .. brahmaṇo juhvataḥ śukramagnau pūrvaṃ prajepsayā .. 66 .. > At the sacrifice of the Great God, who was bearing a Vāruṇī body, / as Brahmā previously poured semen into the fire desiring offspring, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.67) ṛṣayo jajñire pūrvaṃ sūryabiṃbasamaprabhāḥ .. pitustava samīpaṃ te varaṇāya tava priye .. prasthāpitā mayā pūrvaṃ tattvaṃ jānāsi suvrate .. 67 .. > the seers were born formerly, possessing radiance equal to the sun's orb. / They were sent by me in the past to your father to ask for your hand, my dear; / you know the truth of that, O lady of noble vows. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.68) atha kiṃ bahunoktena vacmi te praśnamuttamam .. dvitīye tu parārddhe'sminvarttamāne ca vedhasaḥ .. 68 .. > Now, what is the use of speaking much? I will answer your excellent question. / In this present second half of the life of Vedhas, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.69) śvetakalpātsamārabhya yāvadvārāhagocaram .. samatītāśca ye candrāstāñchṛṇuṣva varānane .. 69 .. > beginning from the Śvetakalpa down to the range of the Vārāha, / listen, O fair-faced lady, to those moons that have passed away: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.70) catuḥśatāni deveśi ṣaḍviṃśatyadhikāni tu .. gatāni śītaraśmīnāṃ saptaviṃśo'dhunā priye .. 7.1.19.70 .. > Four hundred and twenty-six cool-rayed ones have passed away, / O ruler of the gods; the twenty-seventh is now \[present\], my dear, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.71) vaivasvateṃ'tare prāpte yaścāyaṃ vartate'dhunā .. tretāyuge tu daśame dattātreyapuraḥsaraḥ .. 71 .. > which exists right now when the Vaivasvata interval has arrived. / In the tenth Tretāyuga, accompanied by Dattātreya, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.72) saṃjāto rohiṇīnātho yo'dhunā varttate priye .. tasyotpattiprasaṃgena viṣṇormānuṣasaṃbhavān .. 72 .. > the lord of Rohiṇī was born, who exists right now, my dear. / In connection with his origin, \[I shall speak of\] the human incarnations of Viṣṇu. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.73) dehāvatārānvakṣyāmi prāraṃbhātprathamānpriye .. pañcamaḥ paṃcadaśyāṃ sa tretāyāṃ tu babhūva ha .. 73 .. > I will tell of his bodily descents from the very beginning, my beloved. / The fifth occurred in the fifteenth Tretāyuga: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.74) māṃdhātā cakravarttitve tasyotathyapuraḥsaraḥ .. ekonaviṃśatretāyāṃ sarvakṣatrāṃtako'bhavat .. 74 .. > Māndhātṛ, who held universal empire, preceded by Utathya. / In the nineteenth Tretāyuga, the destroyer of all kṣatriyas arose— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.75) jāmadagnyastathā ṣaṣṭho viśvāmitrapuraḥsaraḥ .. caturviṃśe yuge rāmo vasiṣṭhena purodhasā .. 75 .. > the descendant of Jamadagni, the sixth, preceded by Viśvāmitra. / In the twenty-fourth age, Rāma \[arose\], with Vasiṣṭha as his priest; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.76) saptamo rāvaṇasyārthe jajñe daśarathātmajaḥ .. aṣṭame dvāpare viṣṇuraṣṭāviṃśe parāśarāt .. 76 .. > the seventh, born as the son of Daśaratha for the destruction of Rāvaṇa. / In the twenty-eighth Dvāpara, Viṣṇu was born as the eighth from Parāśara; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.77) vedavyāsastato jajñe jātūkarṇyapuraḥsaraḥ .. tatraiva navamo viṣṇuraditeḥ kaśyapātmajaḥ .. 77 .. > then was born Vedavyāsa, preceded by Jātūkarṇya. / There too Viṣṇu was born as the ninth, son of Kaśyapa from Aditi, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.78) devakyāṃ vasudevāttu brahmagargapuraḥsaraḥ .. ekaviṃśatamasyāsya dvāparasyāṃśasaṃkṣaye .. naṣṭe dharme tadā jajñe viṣṇurvṛṣṇikule svayam .. 78 .. > from Vasudeva upon Devakī, preceded by the divine Garga. / In this twenty-first Dvāpara, at the end of its fraction, / when dharma was destroyed, then Viṣṇu himself was born in the Vṛṣṇi lineage > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.79) kartuṃ dharmavyavasthānamasurāṇāṃ praṇāśanaḥ .. pūrvajanmani viṣṇuḥ sa pramatirnāma vīryavān .. 79 .. > to establish the system of dharma, destroyer of the asuras. / In a previous birth, that heroic Viṣṇu was named Pramati; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.80) gotreṇa vai caṃdramasaḥ saṃdhyāmiśre bhaviṣyati .. kalkirviṣṇuyaśānāma pārāśaryapratāpavān .. 7.1.19.80 .. > by lineage of Candramas, he will appear at the junction of the ages— / Kalki, known as Viṣṇuyaśas, mighty like the son of Parāśara, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.81) daśamo bhāvyasaṃbhūto yājñavalkyapuraḥsaraḥ .. anukarṣaśca vai senāṃ hastyaśvarathasaṃkulām .. 81 ... > the tenth, who is to come, preceded by Yājñavalkya. / Leading an army crowded with elephants, horses, and chariots, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.82) pragṛhītāyudhairviprairbhṛśaṃ śatasahasraśaḥ .. niḥśeṣāñchūdrarājñastāṃstadā sa tu kariṣyati .. 82 .. > with brahmins wielding weapons by hundreds of thousands, / he will then completely destroy those Śūdra kings, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.83) pākhaṃḍānmlecchajātīṃśca dasyūṃścaiva sahasraśaḥ .. nātyarthaṃ dhārmikā ye ca brahmabrahmadviṣaḥ kvacit .. 83 .. > and heretics, mleccha tribes, and bandits by thousands, / and those who are not particularly righteous, and wherever there are haters of the Veda and brahmins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.84) pravṛttacakro balavāñcchūrāṇāmaṃtako balī .. adṛśyaḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ pṛthivīṃ vicariṣyati .. 84 ... > His discus set in motion, powerful, a terminator of the valiant, mighty, / invisible to all beings, he will traverse the earth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.85) mānavasya tu soṃ'śena devasya bhuvi vai prabhuḥ.. kṣapayitvā tu tānsarvānbhāvinārthena noditān .. gaṃgāyamunayormadhye niṣṭhāṃ prāpsyati sānugaḥ .. 85 ... > As the lord on earth with a portion of the divine Manu, / having destroyed all of them driven by what is destined to occur, / he will attain his end between the Gaṅgā and the Yamunā along with his followers. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.86) tato vyatīte kalkau tu sāmātye sahasainike .. nṛpeṣvapi ca naṣṭeṣu tadātvapraharāḥ prajāḥ .. 86 .. > Then, when Kalki has departed together with his ministers and army, / and kings have vanished, the subjects will at that time strike one another. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.87) rakṣaṇe vinivṛtte ca hatvā cānyonyamāhave .. parasparahatāstāśca nirākraṃdāḥ suduḥkhitāḥ .. 87 .. > When protection has ceased, they will kill each other in battle; / slaughtered by one another, they will be utterly helpless and deeply wretched. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.88) kṣīṇe kaliyuge cāsmindaśavarṣasahasrake .. sa saṃdhyāṃśe tu niḥśeṣe kṛtaṃ vai pratipatsyati .. 88.. > And when this Kaliyuga is exhausted in ten thousand years, / and its twilight fraction is completely spent, the Kṛtayuga will arrive. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.89) yadā caṃdraśca sūryaśca tathā tiṣyabṛhaspatī .. ekarāśau sameṣyaṃti prapatsyati tadā kṛtam .. 89 .. > When the moon, the sun, Tiṣya, and Bṛhaspati / all enter into the same zodiacal sign, then the Kṛtayuga will begin. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.90) abhijinnāma nakṣatraṃ jayaṃtīnāma śarvarī.. muhūrto vijayo nāma yatra jāto janārddanaḥ .. 7.1.19.90 .. > The lunar mansion was Abhijit, the night was Jayantī, / and the muhūrta was Vijaya when Janārdana was born. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.91) .. devyuvāca .. .. noktaṃ yathāvadakhilaṃ bhṛguśāpaviceṣṭitam.. pūrvāvatārānme brūhi noktapūrvānmaheśvara..91.. > The goddess said: / The entire course of events caused by the curse of Bhṛgu has not been fully related. / Tell me of his former descents that have not been told before, O Maheśvara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.92) īśvara uvāca.. yadā tu pṛthivī vyāptā dānavairbalavattaraiḥ.. tataḥ prabhṛti śāpena bhṛgunaimittikena ha.. 92.. > Īśvara said: / When the earth was overrun by very powerful dānavas, / from that time onward, by the curse occasioned by Bhṛgu, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.93) jajñe punaḥpunarviṣṇuḥ karttuṃ dharmavyavasthitim.. dharmānnārāyaṇaḥ sādhyaḥ saṃbhūtaścākṣuṣeṃtare..93.. > Viṣṇu was born again and again to establish the order of dharma. / From Dharma, Nārāyaṇa was born as a Sādhya in the Cākṣuṣa Manvantara; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.94) yajñaṃ pravartayāmāsa sa ca vaivasvateṃ'tare .. prādurbhāve tadā tasya brahmā cāsītpurohitaḥ..94.. > and he established the sacrifice in the Vaivasvata Manvantara. / During that manifestation of his, Brahmā was his priest. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.95) caturthyāṃ tu yugākhyāyāmāpanneṣu sureṣviha.. saṃbhūtaḥ sa samudrāttu hiraṇyakaśiporvadhe..95.. > In the fourth yuga named, when the gods here had fallen into distress, / he arose from the ocean for the slaying of Hiraṇyakaśipu. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.96) dvitīyo narasiṃho'bhūdrudrastasya puraḥsaraḥ.. lokeṣu balisaṃstheṣu tretāyāṃ saptame yuge..96.. > The second was Narasiṃha, who had Rudra as his forerunner. / When the worlds were controlled by Bali in the seventh yuga of the Tretā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.97) daityaistrailokya ākrāṃte tṛtīyo vāmanobhavat.. saṃkṣipyātmānamaṃgeṣu bṛhaspatipuraḥsaraḥ .. 97 .. > and the three worlds were overrun by the daityas, the third became Vāmana; / shrinking his body in his limbs, he was preceded by Bṛhaspati. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.98) tretāyuge tu daśame dattātreyo babhūva ha .. naṣṭe dharme caturthāṃśe mārkaṃḍeyapuraḥsaraḥ .. ete divyāvatārā vai mānuṣye kathitāḥ purā .. 98 .. > In the tenth Tretāyuga, Dattātreya indeed arose, / when a fourth of dharma was lost, preceded by Mārkaṇḍeya. / These divine descents among humans have been declared formerly. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.19.98\_3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19.98_3) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye śrīviṣṇvavatāravarṇanaṃnāmaikonaviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 19 .. cha .. > Thus ends the nineteenth chapter, named 'Description of the Descents of Śrī Viṣṇu', in the first section on the Māhātmya of Prabhāsakṣetra, in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa of the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.19.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [Tattvacintāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.saiva.trika.natha.hathayoga.tattvacintamani.2.34) — Sanskrit - [Kālanirṇaya (Kālamādhavīya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.nirnaya.kalamadhaviya.4.p11) — Mādhava, Sanskrit - [Smṛtyarthasāgara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.daksinatya.smrtyarthasagara.2.p260) — Chalāri Nṛsiṃha, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.19) · Pramāṇa