Skandapurana 2.7.20.48

2.7.20.48

brahmaṇastu muhūrte tu manostu pralayaṃ viduḥ ..
pralayeṣu vyatīteṣu caturdaśasu vai kramāt ..25..
dainaṃdinalayaṃ prāhuḥ pralayānāṃ sthitiṃ punaḥ..
trayāṇāmeva lokānāṃ layo manvaṃtare bhavet ..26..
cetanānāṃ tadā nāśo na lokānāṃ kṣayo bhavet..
udakaireva pūrtiśca yathā pūrvaṃ tathā punaḥ ..27..
manvaṃtarāṃte bhūyāttu cetanānāṃ punarbhavaḥ ..
dainaṃdinalaye vyādha sarvasyāpi kṣayo bhavet ..28..
satyalokaṃ vinā sarve lokā naśyaṃti sādhipāḥ..
sacetanāḥ sādhibhūtāḥ prasupte caturānane ..29..
tattvābhimānino devāḥ kecicca munayastathā ..
śiṣyaṃti suptāḥ sarve'pi satyalokavyavasthitāḥ.. 2.7.20.30..
tiṣṭhaṃti suptimāpannā yāvatkalpamatīṃdriyāḥ ..
punarniśātyaye brahmā yathāpūrvamakalpayat ..31..
ṛṣīndevānpitṝm̐llokāndharmānvarṇānpṛthakpṛthak ..
punardaśāvatārā hi viṣṇordevasya cakriṇaḥ ..32..
niyamena bhavaṃtyete tathānye'pi ca bhūriśaḥ ..
devatā ṛṣayaścaiva ākalpaṃ ca girāṃ pateḥ ..33..
punarevā'bhivartaṃte brahmaṇā saha muktigāḥ..
bhūpāśca sādhavo ye ca siddhiṃ prāptāḥ paraṃgatāḥ ..34..
tenaiva cābhivartaṃte satyalokavyavasthitāḥ ..
tadrāśigāḥ punaryāṃti tannāmnā śrutisaṃsthitāḥ..35..
tattadgotreṣu jāyaṃte tattatkarmaratāḥ sadā ..
daityānāmapi sarveṣāṃ yadā kaliyugātyayaḥ ..36..
kalinā saha gacchaṃti svāṃ gatiṃ nirayālayāḥ..
teṣāṃ ca rāśisaṃsthā ye tannāmāno'pare'pi ca..37..
jāyante karmaṇā svena tattatkarmavidhāyakāḥ..
sṛṣṭikālaṃ pravakṣyāmi muktikālaṃ tathaiva ca ..38..
brahmādīnāṃ ca devānāṃ samāhitamanā bhava ..
nimeṣo devadevasya brahmakalpasamo mataḥ..39..
tasyāvasāne conmeṣo devadevaśikhāmaṇeḥ..
nimeṣāṃ'te bhavedicchā sraṣṭuṃ lokāṃśca kukṣigān.. 2.7.20.40..
so'paśyatsvodare sarvāñjīvasaṃghānanekaśaḥ..
sṛjyānmuktānamṛnsarvām̐ liṃgabhaṃgamupāgatān ..41..
suptāḥ sṛtisthāḥ sarve'pi tamogā api sarvaśaḥ..
pūrvakalpe liṃgabhaṃgamāpannā vidhipūrvakāḥ ..42..
mānavāṃtā jīvakośā jīvanmuktāśca muktigāḥ ..
pūrvakalpe vimuktāśca brahmādyā mānavāṃtakāḥ..43..
dhyānasaṃsthā hi tiṣṭhaṃti viṣṇukukṣigatā api ..
unmeṣasyādime bhāge caturvyūhātmako vibhuḥ..44..
bhūtvā tu pūrvasādguṇyādvāsudevācca vyūhagāt ..
dattvā tu brahmaṇo muktiṃ sāyujyākhyāṃ mahāvibhuḥ ..45..
dattvā tadanu sāyujyaṃ tattvajñānaṃ mahātmanām ..
sārūpyaṃ caiva keṣāṃcitsāmīpyaṃ ca tathā vibhuḥ.. 46..
sālokyaṃ ca tathā'nyeṣāṃ dattvā devo janārdanaḥ ..
aniruddhavaśe sarvānsthitām̐llokānalokayat..47..
pradyumnasya vaśe dattvā sṛṣṭiṃ kartuṃ mano dadhe..
māyāṃ jayāṃ kṛtiṃ śāṃtimupayeme svayaṃ hariḥ..48.

In a muhūrta of Brahmā, however, they know of the dissolution of a Manu. / When fourteen dissolutions have passed in succession, / they speak of the daily dissolution, and again of the duration of the dissolutions. / The dissolution of the three worlds takes place in a manvantara; / then there is destruction of conscious beings, but not a destruction of the worlds. / And there is filling up with waters, just as before, so again / at the end of a manvantara there is the rebirth of conscious beings. / In the daily dissolution, O hunter, there is destruction of everything. / Except for Satyaloka, all worlds perish along with their regents, / along with sentient beings and elemental spirits, when the four-faced one has fallen asleep. / The gods presiding over the principles and some sages likewise, / situated in Satyaloka, remain asleep, all of them. / Having entered sleep, beyond the senses, they remain for as long as a kalpa. / Again, at the end of night, Brahmā fashioned as before / the seers, the gods, the ancestors, the worlds, the duties, and the classes separately. / Again, the ten incarnations of the lord Viṣṇu, holder of the discus, / these occur by fixed rule, and likewise many others. / And the deities and seers, unto the end of the kalpa of the lord of speech, / turn back again, attaining liberation together with Brahmā. / And the virtuous kings who attained perfection and achieved the supreme, / turn back likewise, dwelling in Satyaloka. / Those belonging to that collection go again under that name, established in the Vedas. / They are born in those respective lineages, always devoted to those respective actions. / For all the Daityas too, when the end of the Kali age arrives, / they go to their own state, dwelling in hell, together with Kali. / And those belonging to their collection, and others bearing their names, / are born according to their own karma, performative of those respective acts. / I shall declare the time of creation and likewise the time of liberation / of Brahmā and the other gods; become concentrated in mind. / The closing of the eyes of the god of gods is considered equal to a kalpa of Brahmā; / at the end of that is the opening of the eyes of the crest-jewel among the gods of gods. / At the end of the closing of the eyes, there is the wish to create the worlds resting in his belly. / In his own belly he saw all the multitude of beings manifoldly, / those to be created and those liberated, who have attained the dissolution of the subtle body, / all asleep, those situated in the cycle of birth, and also those in darkness in every way. / In the previous kalpa, those from Brahmā downwards who attained dissolution of the subtle body, / reaching down to humans, the sheaths of living beings, both living-liberated and destined for liberation, / and those liberated in a previous kalpa, from Brahmā down to humans, / remain established in meditation, even while inside Viṣṇu's belly. / In the first part of the eye-opening, the all-pervading lord, having assumed the form of the four emanations, / by his primordial excellence and from Vāsudeva who is part of the emanation, / having bestowed upon Brahmā liberation named sāyujya, the great all-pervading lord, / having then given sāyujya and knowledge of reality to the noble-minded ones, / and sārūpya to some, and sāmīpya likewise, the all-pervading lord, / and having given sālokya to others, the divine Janārdana / looked upon all the worlds situated under the control of Aniruddha. / Giving [creation] over to the control of Pradyumna, he set his mind to create; / Hari himself wedded Māyā, Jayā, Kṛti, and Śānti.