Skandapurana 5.272

Sūta said: / By a thousand of these, O twice-born ones, a day is to be comprehended. / In that day, fourteen thousand-eyed Indras are born.

The thousand-eyed Indra who exists here at present is the seventh, / during the seventy-one cosmic cycles [which form one] fourteenth of a day of Brahmā.

He exercises rule over the yugas, and so do the other Manus; / beginning with Svāyambhuva, they remain just as the Indras do.

This Indra who exists at present is named Jāyanta, / and the Manu is Vaivasvata, measuring the twenty-eighth [cycle].

When this four-yuga cycle has elapsed and only the remainder is left, / Bali will become Indra by the grace of Vāsudeva.

By him kingship was promised to him in the eighth Manu.

Thus all other gods, measuring thirty-three / crores, will come into being just as in the past.

This Brahmā who stands here at present as the creator, O brahmins, / by this measure, eight years have elapsed for him,

and six months, and half a day, the first [half] beginning with the bright fortnight. / By these four types of measure—solar, civil, lunar, and sidereal—

[the span of life] slips away for all living beings on the circle of the earth in the Kali [age]. / With three hundred days plus sixty-five, / there is a solar year, and by those [days] diminished by five, a civil year.

The lunar is diminished by eleven, and that originating from the stars is diminished by thirty. / Cold, heat, and rain occur according to the solar measure.

The ripening of fruits of trees and the highest ripening of crops, / as well as the Agniṣṭoma and other sacrifices that exist on the face of the earth,

and festivities and marriages take place according to the civil measure. / Lending at interest and whatever other business transactions arise from livelihoods,

these are determined by the lunar measure connected with intercalary months. / But the courses of the planets are calculated by the sidereal measure.

There is nothing on the surface of the earth apart from this quartet of measures. / By this measure the gods, Daityas, and mortals

exist, O best of brahmins; such is the ancient revelation. / Whoever recites this measure of the yugas with devotion

concerning these very seven liṅgas, O best of brahmins, / no fear of untimely death will ever befall him.

Thus ends the two hundred seventy-third chapter, entitled "Description of the Measure 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.