[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) › 5.272 # Skandapurana 5.272 Skandapurāṇa 5.272 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.272.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.1) .. sūta uvāca .. .. eteṣāṃ tu sahasreṇa bhavedgrāhyaṃ dinaṃ dvijāḥ .. caturdaśa sahasrākṣā jāyaṃte tatra vāsare .. 1 .. > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.2) saptamastu sahasrākṣaḥ sāṃprataṃ vartate'tra yaḥ .. ekasaptatisaṃvartacaturdaśadine vidheḥ .. 2 .. > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.3) yugānāṃ kurute rājyaṃ manavaśca tathā pare .. svāyaṃbhuvaprabhṛtayo yathā śakrāstathā sthitāḥ .. .. 3 .. > He exercises rule over the yugas, and so do the other Manus; / beginning with Svāyambhuva, they remain just as the Indras do. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.4) jāyanto nāma śakro'yaṃ sāṃprataṃ vartate tu yaḥ .. vaivasvato manuścaiva aṣṭāviṃśatpramāṇakaḥ .. 4 .. > This Indra who exists at present is named Jāyanta, / and the Manu is Vaivasvata, measuring the twenty-eighth \[cycle\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.5) caturyugasya saṃjāto gatesmiñcheṣamātrake .. bhaviṣyati baliḥ śakro vāsudevaprasādataḥ .. 5 .. > When this four-yuga cycle has elapsed and only the remainder is left, / Bali will become Indra by the grace of Vāsudeva. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.6) tena tasya pratijñātaṃ rājyaṃ caivāṣṭame manau .. 6 .. > By him kingship was promised to him in the eighth Manu. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.7) evaṃ sarve surāścānye trayastriṃśatpramāṇataḥ ... koṭayaḥ prabhaviṣyaṃti yathā caiva tathā purā .. 7 .. > Thus all other gods, measuring thirty-three / crores, will come into being just as in the past. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.8) yo'yaṃ brahmā sthito viprāḥ sāṃprataṃ sṛṣṭikārakaḥ .. tasyānena pramāṇena jātaṃ saṃvatsarāṣṭakam .. .. 8 .. > This Brahmā who stands here at present as the creator, O brahmins, / by this measure, eight years have elapsed for him, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.9) ṣaṇmāsāśca dinārdhaṃ ca prathamaṃ śuklapūrvakam.. saurasāvanacaṃdrārkṣairmānairebhiścaturvidhaiḥ .. 9 .. > 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— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.10) kalau niryāti sarveṣāṃ bhūtānāṃ kṣitimaṇḍale .. paṃcaṣaṣṭyā'dhikaiścaiva dinānāṃ ca śataistribhiḥ .. bhavetsaṃvatsaraṃ sauraṃ pañconaistaiśca sāvanam .. 6.273.10 .. > \[the span of life\] 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.11) cāṃdra ekādaśonastu triṃśaddhīna uḍūdbhavaḥ .. śītātapau tathā vṛṣṭiḥ sauramānena jāyate .. 11 .. > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.12) vṛkṣāṇāṃ phalaniṣpattiḥ sasyānāṃ ca tathā parā . agniṣṭomādayo yajñā vartaṃte ye dharātale .. 12 .. > 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, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.13) utsāhāśca vivāhāśca sāvanena bhavaṃti ca .. kusīdādyāśca ye kecidvyavahārāśca vṛttijāḥ .. 13 .. > and festivities and marriages take place according to the civil measure. / Lending at interest and whatever other business transactions arise from livelihoods, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.14) adhimāsaprayuktena te syuścāṃdreṇa nirmitāḥ .. nākṣatreṇa tu mānena sidhyaṃte grahacārikāḥ .. 14 .. > these are determined by the lunar measure connected with intercalary months. / But the courses of the planets are calculated by the sidereal measure. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.15) nānyatkiṃciddharāpṛṣṭha etanmānacatuṣṭayāt .. etena tu pramāṇena devadaityāśca mānavāḥ .. 15 .. > There is nothing on the surface of the earth apart from this quartet of measures. / By this measure the gods, Daityas, and mortals > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.16) varttaṃte brāhmaṇaśreṣṭhāḥ śrutireṣā purātanī .. etadyugapramāṇaṃ tu yaḥ paṭhedbhaktisaṃyutaḥ .. 16 .. > exist, O best of brahmins; such is the ancient revelation. / Whoever recites this measure of the yugas with devotion > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.17) eteṣāmeva liṃgānāṃ saptānāṃ brāhmaṇottamāḥ .. nāpamṛtyu bhayaṃ tasya kathaṃcitsaṃbhaviṣyati .. 17 .. > concerning these very seven liṅgas, O best of brahmins, / no fear of untimely death will ever befall him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.272.273](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272.273) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye yugapramāṇavarṇanaṃnāma trisaptatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 273 > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.5.272.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.272) · Pramāṇa