[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) › 5.271 # Skandapurana 5.271 Skandapurāṇa 5.271 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.271.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.1) ṛṣaya ūcuḥ .. . yadetadbhavatā proktamīśānasya mahīpateḥ.. īśvareṇa purā dattamāyuryāvatsvavāsaram.. 1 .. > The seers said: / This which has been spoken by you—that to King Īśāna / a lifespan lasting as long as his own day was given of old by Īśvara— 1. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.2) kiṃpramāṇaṃ bhavettasya divasasya bravīhi naḥ .. .. sūta uvāca .. .. ahaṃ vaḥ kīrtayiṣyāmi pramāṇaṃ divasasya tu .. 2 .. > tell us, what is the measure of that day? / Sūta said: / I shall declare to you the measure of that day 2. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.3) māheśvarasya viprendrāḥ śrūyatāṃ gadataḥ sphuṭam .. nimeṣasya caturbhāgastruṭiḥ syāttaddvayaṃ lavaḥ .. 3 .. > of the Great Lord, O best of brahmins; listen clearly as it is spoken: / A truṭi is the fourth part of a nimeṣa; two of them make a lava; 3. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.4) lavadvayaṃ yavaḥ proktaḥ kāṣṭhā te daśa paṃca ca .. triṃśatkāṣṭhāḥ kalāmāhuḥ kṣaṇastriṃśatkalo mataḥ .. 4 .. > two lavas are called a yava; fifteen of them make a kāṣṭhā; / thirty kāṣṭhās they call a kalā; a kṣaṇa is considered to be thirty kalās; 4. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.5) kṣaṇaiḥ ṣaṣṭyā palaṃ proktaṃ ṣaṣṭyā teṣāṃ ca nāḍikā .. nāḍikādvitayenaiva muhūrtaṃ parikīrtitam .. 5 .. > by sixty kṣaṇas a pala is declared; and by sixty of those, a nāḍikā; / by two nāḍikās, a muhūrta is proclaimed; 5. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.6) triṃśanmuhūrttamuddiṣṭamahorātraṃ manīṣibhiḥ .. māsastriṃśadahorātraidvau dvau māsāvṛtuṃ viduḥ .. 6 .. > a day and night is designated by the wise as thirty muhūrtas; / a month consists of thirty days and nights; two months each are known as a season; 6. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.7) ṛtutrayaṃ cāpyayanamayane dve tu vatsaram .. mānuṣāṇāṃ hi sarveṣāṃ sa eva parikīrtitaḥ .. 7 .. > three seasons make a solstice; and two solstices make a year. / Indeed, that very \[year\] is proclaimed for all mortal men. 7. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.8) sa devānāmahorātraṃ purāṇajñāḥ pracakṣate .. ayanaṃ cottaraṃ śuklaṃ yaddevānāṃ dinaṃ ca tat .. yaddakṣiṇaṃ tu sā rātriḥ śubhakarmavigarhitā .. 8 .. > The knowers of the Purāṇas declare that to be a day and night of the gods: / the northern solstice, which is bright, is the day of the gods; / that which is the southern is the night, censured for auspicious rites. 8. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.9) yathā supto na gṛhṇāti kiṃcidbhogādikaṃ naraḥ .. tathā devāśca yajñāṃśānna gṛhṇanti kathaṃ cana .. 9 .. > Just as a sleeping man does not receive any enjoyments or the like, / so the gods do not receive portions of the sacrifice in any way. 9. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.10) anenaiva tu mānena mānavena dvijottamāḥ .. lakṣaiḥ saptadaśākhyaistu vatsarāṇāṃ prakīrtitam .. 6.272.10 .. > By this very human reckoning, O best of the twice-born, / seventeen hundred thousand 10. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.11) aṣṭāviṃśatsahasraistu vatsarāṇāṃ kṛtaṃ yugam .. tasmiñchveto'bhavadviṣṇurbhagavānyo jagadguruḥ .. 11 .. > and twenty-eight thousand years are proclaimed as the Kṛta Yuga. / In it, the venerable Viṣṇu, who is the teacher of the world, became white. 11. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.12) lokāḥ pāpavinirmuktāḥ śāṃtā dāṃtā jitendriyāḥ .. dīrghāyuṣastathā sarve sadaiva tapasi sthitāḥ .. 12 .. > People were free from sin, tranquil, self-restrained, mastering their senses, / long-lived, and all constantly established in austerity. 12. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.13) yo yathā janma cāpnoti tathā sa mriyate naraḥ.. na putrasaṃbhavo mṛtyurvīkṣyate janakaiḥ kvacit .. 13 .. > As a person was born, so he died \[in natural order\]; / the death of a son was never witnessed by parents. 13. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.14) kāmaḥ krodhastathā lobho daṃbho matsara eva ca .. na jāyate nṛṇāṃ tatra yuge tu dvijasattamāḥ ..14.. > Desire, anger, greed, deceit, and envy / did not arise among men in that yuga, O best of the twice-born. 14. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.15) tatastretāyugaṃ bhāvi dvitīyaṃ munisattamāḥ .. pādenaikena pāpaṃ tu raudraṃ dharme tadāviśat .. 15 .. > After that comes the Tretā Yuga, the second, O best of sages; / then terrible sin entered into dharma by a single quarter. 15. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.16) tato raktatvamabhyeti bhagavānmadhusūdanaḥ .. pāpāṃśe'pi ca saṃprāpte sasparddho jāyate janaḥ .. 16 .. > Then the venerable Madhusūdana attains red coloration; / and when a fraction of sin arrived, people became competitive. 16. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.17) svargamārgakṛte sarve cakruryajñāṃstataḥ param .. agniṣṭomādikāṃstatra bahuhomādikāṃstathā .. 17 .. > For the sake of the path to heaven, all performed sacrifices thereafter— / the Agniṣṭoma and others there, and many burnt offerings and the like. 17. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.19) devalokāṃstato yāṃti mūlādyāvaccaturdaśa .. brahmalokasya paryaṃtaṃ svakīyairya jñakarmabhiḥ ..19.. > Thereupon, by their own sacrificial rites, they go to the fourteen divine worlds, / from the base up to the world of Brahmā. 19. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.19\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.19_1) kiṃcitsvalpāyuṣastatra jāyante spardhayā'nvitāḥ .. paraṃ tatrāpi no yāṃti mṛtyuṃ putrāḥ kathaṃcana .. 19 .. > There, \[people\] are born with somewhat shorter lifespans, possessed of rivalry; / even there, however, sons in no way meet with death \[before their elders\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.20) janake vidyamāne ca sva lpadoṣāḥ prakīrtitāḥ .. kāmakrodhādayo ye ca bhavaṃti na bhavaṃti ca .. 6.272.20 .. > while the father is alive, and they are declared to have slight faults. / Desire, anger, and the like both occur and do not occur \[among them\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.21) ekayā velayā tatra vāpitaṃ sasyamuttamam .. saptavārānpragṛhṇaṃti vaiśyāḥ kṛṣiparāyaṇāḥ .. 21 .. > The excellent grain sown there in a single season, / the vaiśyas devoted to agriculture harvest seven times. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.22) sarvā ghaṭasravā gāvo mahiṣyaśca caturguṇāḥ .. prayacchaṃti tathā kṣīramuṣṭryastāsāṃ caturguṇam .. 22 .. > All the cows yield a whole jar of milk, the female buffaloes four times that much, / and likewise female camels yield four times the milk of those buffaloes; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.23) ajāvikāstathā pādaṃ nāryaḥ sarvāstathaiva ca .. vedādhyayanasaṃpannāḥ pratigrahavivarjitāḥ .. śāpānugrahakṛtyeṣu samarthāḥ saṃbhavaṃti ca 23 .. > likewise female goats and sheep \[yield\] a quarter, and all the women \[are\] similarly \[virtuous\]. / \[The brahmins\] are endowed with Vedic study, free from receiving gifts, / and capable in the acts of cursing and blessing. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.24) kṣatriyāḥ kṣātradharmeṇa pālayaṃti vasuṃdharām .. na tatra dṛśyate cauro na ca jāraḥ kathaṃcana .. svadharmaniratāḥ sarve varṇāścaiva vyavasthitāḥ .. 24 .. > The kṣatriyas protect the earth in accordance with the duty of the warrior; / neither thief nor adulterer is seen there in any way; / and all the social classes are established, devoted to their own duties. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.25) tacca dvādaśabhirlakṣairvatsarāṇāṃ prakīrtitam .. ṣaṇṇavatyā sahasraistu dvitīyaṃ yugamuttamam ..25.. > That second, excellent yuga is declared / to consist of one million two hundred and ninety-six thousand years. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.26) tataśca dvāparaṃ bhāvi tṛtīyaṃ dvijasattamāḥ .. dvau pādau tatra pāpasya dvau ca dharmasya saṃsthitau.. bhagavānvāsudevaśca kapilastatra jāyate .. 26 .. > After that will come the Dvāpara, the third \[yuga\], O best of brahmins. / There two quarters of sin and two of righteousness are established; / the blessed Vāsudeva is born there as Kapila. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.27) taccāṣṭalakṣamānena vatsarāṇāṃ prakīrtitam .. catuḥṣaṣṭibhiranyaistu sahasrāṇāṃ dvijottamāḥ .. 27 .. > And that is declared to have a measure of eight hundred / and sixty-four thousand years, O best of brahmins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.28) kāmaḥ krodhastathā lobho daṃbho matsara eva ca .. ṣaḍete tatra jāyaṃte īrṣyā caiva tu saptamī..28.. > Desire, anger, greed, deceit, and malice— / these six are born there, and jealousy as the seventh. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.29) atha saṃsevitāstaistu mānavāśca parasparam .. viruddhāṃśca prakurvaṃti nāpnuvaṃti yathā divam .. 29 .. > Then men, attended by these \[faults\], / act in opposition to one another and do not attain heaven as before. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.30) kecittatrāpi jāyaṃte śāṃtā dāṃtā jiteṃdriyāḥ .. na sarve'pi dvijaśreṣṭhā yato'rddhaṃ pātakasya tu .. 6.272.30 .. > Some are born even there peaceful, self-controlled, and with conquered senses, / but not all, O best of brahmins, because half consists of sin. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.31) tataḥ kaliyugaṃ proktaṃ caturthaṃ ca sudāruṇam .. ekapādo vṛṣo yatra pāpaṃ pādaistribhiḥ sthitam .. 31 .. > After that is proclaimed the Kaliyuga, the fourth and exceedingly dreadful \[age\], / wherein the bull \[of Dharma\] has a single foot, and sin stands upon three feet. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.32) kṛṣṇatvaṃ yāti devo'pi tatra caiva caturbhujaḥ .. eka pādo'pi dharmasya yāvattāvatpravartate .. 32 .. > There even the four-armed God assumes blackness. / So long as that single foot of righteousness endures, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.33) paścānnāśaṃ samabhyeti yāvattāvacchanaiḥśanaiḥ .. pramāṇaṃ tasya nirdiṣṭaṃ lakṣāścatvāra eva hi .. 33 .. > it gradually moves toward destruction thereafter. / Its duration is indicated as four hundred > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.34) dvātriṃśacca sahasrāṇi yugasyaivāṃtimasya ca .. kalinā tatra saṃpṛṣṭā martyāḥ sarve parasparam .. 34 .. > and thirty-two thousand \[years\] of that final yuga. / Touched there by Kali, all mortals toward one another, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.36) vibudhaiste pravartaṃte rāgadveṣaparāyaṇāḥ .. yasyayasya gṛhe vittaṃ tathā nāryo manoramāḥ ..36.. > acting alongside scholars, become devoted to passion and malice. / In whosever house there is wealth and charming women, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.36\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.36_2) tenatena samaṃ maitrīṃ kalau kurvaṃti mānavāḥ .. vidhavānāṃ yatīnāṃ ca sarveṣāṃ ca tapasvinām..36.. > with that very person men form friendships in the Kali \[age\]. / For widows, ascetics, and all practitioners of austerity, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.37) lokadvayavināśaḥ syādyataśceto na śudhyati .. prāvṛṭkāle'pi saṃprāpte durbhikṣeṇa prapīḍitāḥ .. 37 .. > there is ruin of both worlds, because their minds are not purified. / Even when the rainy season arrives, afflicted by famine, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.38) bhramaṃti ca kalau lokā gaganāsaktadṛṣṭayaḥ.. jānāti cāpi tanayaḥ pitā cennidhanaṃ vrajet .. 38 . > people in the Kali wander with their eyes fixed upon the sky. / And a son thinks, “If my father were to die, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.39) tatohaṃ gṛhapo bhūyāṃ bāṃdhavo hyapi bāṃdhavam .. snuṣāpi vetti cittena yadi śvaśrūḥ kṣayaṃ vrajet .. 39 .. > then I would become the master of the house”; a relative \[thinks so\] of a relative; / even a daughter-in-law thinks in her heart, “If my mother-in-law were to perish, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.40) mama syādgṛha aiśvaryaṃ tatsarvaṃ nānyathā vrajet .. kāvyairupahatā vedāḥ putrā jāmātṛkaistathā .. 6.272.40 .. > all the lordship in the house would be mine, and it would not go otherwise.” / The Vedas are struck down by poetic compositions, sons by sons-in-law, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.41) śālakairbāṃdhavāścaiva hyasatībhiḥ kulastriyaḥ .. śūdrāstapasvinaścaiva śūdrā dharmasya sūcakāḥ ..41.. > kinsmen by brothers-in-law, and noble wives by unchaste women. / Śūdras become ascetics, and śūdras proclaim righteousness; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.42) brāhmaṇānāṃ tataḥ śūdrā upadeśaṃ vadaṃti ca .. alpodakāstathā meghā alpasasyā ca medinī .. 42 .. > then śūdras utter instruction to brahmins. / The clouds have little water, and the earth little grain; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.43) alpakṣīrāstathā gāvaḥ kṣīre sarpistathā'lpakam . sarvabhakṣāstathā viprā nṛpā niṣkaruṇāstataḥ .. kṛṣyā lajjaṃti vaiśyāśca śūdrā brāhmaṇapreṣakāḥ .. 43 .. > cows yield little milk, and in the milk is little ghee. / Brahmins eat all foods, kings are merciless, / vaiśyas are ashamed of agriculture, and śūdras dispatch brahmins \[on errands\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.44) hetuvādaratā ye ca bhaṃḍaṃvidyāparāśca ye .. tete syurbhūmipālasya sadā'bhīṣṭāḥ kalau yuge ..44.. > Those who are devoted to specious reasoning and those intent on the arts of buffoons / are always dear to the king in the Kaliyuga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.45) śvaḥśvaḥpāpīyadivasāḥ pṛthivī gatayauvanā . atikrāṃta śubhāḥ kālāḥ paryupasthitadāruṇāḥ ..45.. > Day after day becomes more sinful; the earth's youth is gone; / auspicious times are past, and dreadful ones have drawn near. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.46) yathāyathā yugaṃ bhāvi vṛddhiṃ yāṃti striyo narāḥ .. tathātathā prayāṃti sma laghutāṃ jaṃtubhiḥ saha ..46.. > As the yuga advances, women and men grow in number, / but just as they advance, they decline in stature along with \[other\] creatures. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.47) dvādaśame caiva kanyā syādbhartṛsaṃyutā ..47.. > And in the twelfth year a girl is joined with a husband; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.48) tataḥ ṣoḍaśame varṣe narāḥ palitayauvanāḥ .. śaucācāraparityaktā nijakāryaparāstathā .. 48 .. > then in the sixteenth year men have grey hair in their youth, / devoid of purity and conduct, and devoted only to their selfish ends. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.49) bhaviṣyaṃti yugasyāṃte narāḥ aṃguṣṭhamātrakāḥ .. gṛhaṃ ca te'tha kurvaṃti bilairākhusamudbhavaiḥ .. 49 .. > At the end of the yuga, men will be only thumb-sized, / and they will make their dwellings in holes dug by rats. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.49\_3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.49_3) tathā prāvaraṇaṃ teṣāṃ kṛmivastraṃ bhaviṣyati .. ekavarṇā bhaviṣyaṃti varṇāḥ sarve tataḥ paraḥ .. mlechībhūtā durācārā dharmakṛtyavidūṣakāḥ ..6.272.5... > Likewise, their garment will be made of worm-cloth. / After that, all the classes will become one class, / turned into barbarians, evil in conduct, and despisers of righteous duties. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.91) evaṃ jāte tato loke brāhmaṇo haripiṃgalaḥ .. kalkigotrasamutpannastānsarvā nsūdayettataḥ ..91.. > When the world has become thus, a brahmin with tawny-yellow hair, / born in the lineage of Kalki, will then destroy them all. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.91\_4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.91_4) paścātkṛtayugaṃ bhāvi bhūyo'pi dvijasattamāḥ ..52.. > Afterward, the Kṛtayuga will occur once more, O best of brahmins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.91\_5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.91_5) evaṃ yugasahasreṇa saṃprāptena tataḥ param .. brahmaṇo divasaṃ bhāvi rātriścaiva tataḥ param .. 53 .. > When a thousand yugas have elapsed in this way, / a day of Brahmā occurs thereafter, and after that his night. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.91\_6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.91_6) tataścānena mānena ṣaṣṭyā yuktaistribhiḥ śataiḥ .. brahmaṇo vatsaraṃ bhāvi keśavasya ca taddinam .. 54 .. > Then, by this measure of three hundred and sixty \[such days and nights\], / a year of Brahmā occurs; and that is a day of Keśava. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.91\_7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.91_7) ātmīye jīvite brahma yāvadvarṣaśataṃ sthitaḥ .. keśavo'pi svamānena varṣāṇāṃ jīvite śatam .. 55 .. > So long as Brahmā lives his hundred years of his own lifespan, / Keśava too lives for a hundred years by his own reckoning. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.91\_8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.91_8) varṣeṇa vāsudevasya dinaṃ māheśvaraṃ bhavet .. nijamānena sopyatra yāva dvarṣaśataṃ sthitaḥ .. 56 .. > A year of Vāsudeva becomes a day of the Great Lord (Maheśvara); / by his own reckoning he too remains here for a hundred years. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.91\_9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.91_9) tataḥ śaktisvarūpaḥ syātso'kṣayī kīrtyate yataḥ .. sadāśivasya niḥśvāsaḥ śaivaṃ varṣaśataṃ bhavet .. ucchvāsastu punastasya śaktirūpeṇa saṃsthitaḥ .. 57 .. > Then he takes the nature of Śakti, for he is declared to be imperishable. / An out-breath of Sadāśiva is a hundred years of Śiva, / and his in-breath again abides as Śakti. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.91\_10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.91_10) .. sūta uvāca .. .. etadvaḥ sarvamākhyātaṃ śivaśaktisamudbhavam .. yāvadāyuḥ pramāṇaṃ ca mānuṣāḍhyaṃ ca yadbhavet .. .. 58 .. > Sūta said: / All this originating from Śiva and Śakti has been related to you: / the measure of life, and what pertains to human beings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.91\_11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.91_11) bhavadbhiḥ śāṃkaraṃ pṛṣṭo dvijā asmi dinaṃ purā .. mayā punastu sarveṣāṃ martyādīnāṃ tu kīrtitam .. 59 .. > Formerly, O brahmins, I was asked by you about the day of Śaṃkara, / and in turn I have declared to you the \[spans of\] mortals and the rest. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.271.272](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271.272) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekā śītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye yugasvarūpavarṇanaṃnāma dvisaptatyuttaradviśatatamoadhyāyaḥ .. 272 .. > Thus ends the two hundred seventy-second chapter, entitled "Description of the Nature of the Yugas," in the Māhātmya of Hāṭakeśvara Sacred Field, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth \[section\], in the eighty-one-thousand-verse collection of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.5.271.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Yogajāgama (another edition)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.saiva.agama.siva.yogaja*alt.5.83-2) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.271) · Pramāṇa