चंचलाश्चपला बालाः श्यामाः षोडशवार्षिकाः
There are lively, playful young girls, dark-complexioned and sixteen years old.
एवं व्यास पुरी रम्या निर्मिता योगमायया
Thus, Vyāsa, the delightful city was created by the power of Yoga-māyā.
विशाला बहुविस्तीर्णा पुण्या पुण्यजनाश्रया
It is vast, greatly expansive, holy, and a refuge for the virtuous.
विशालेति समाख्याता पुरी रम्या सनातनी 5.1.47.
That beautiful, eternal city is known by the name Viśālā.
विशालेति वदेन्नित्यं शिवलोके महीयते
One who always utters the name 'Viśālā' is honored in the realm of Śiva.
विशाला सदृशी चान्या भुक्तिमुक्तिप्रदा नृणाम्
Viśālā, and another like her, grant both enjoyment and liberation to people.
तदक्षयं भवेत्तेषां पितृकल्पे च गीयते
Their merit becomes inexhaustible; this is sung of in the rites for ancestors.
यत्र कुत्र गतास्ते वै मृता यांति शिवालयम्
Wherever they may go, when they die, they attain the abode of Śiva.
विशालायां फलं शश्वच्छेषः शक्तो न वर्णितुम् महापापोद्भवात्पापान्मुच्यते नात्र संशयः
The fruit in Viśālā is eternal; the rest cannot be described. There is no doubt that one is freed from even the greatest sins born of evil.
एवं व्यास पुरी जाता विशाला च कुशस्थली
Thus, O Vyāsa, the city was established: Viśālā and Kuśasthalī.
इति श्रीस्कान्दे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां पञ्चम आवंत्यखण्डेऽवन्तीक्षेत्र माहात्म्ये विशालाभिधानकथनंनाम सप्तचत्वारिंशोऽध्यायः
Thus ends the forty-seventh chapter, named 'The Account of Viśālā,' in the section on the greatness of the Avanti region, in the fifth Avanti Khaṇḍa of the eighty-one-thousand-verse Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.
मया व्यासमुखात्प्राप्ता कल्पभेदे कथा शुभा
I have obtained this auspicious tale from the mouth of Vyāsa, concerning the cycles of creation.
गुह्याद्गुह्यतरा श्रेष्ठा न देया यस्य कस्यचित्
It is most secret, more secret than the secret, and the best; it should not be given to just anyone.
एषा पुण्यतमा व्यास कथा पापहरा परा
This is the most meritorious tale of Vyāsa, supreme and remover of sin.
प्रमाणं कल्पपर्यंतं ब्रह्मणः परमेष्ठिनः
Its authority endures as long as the cycles of Brahmā, the supreme lord.
यावत्संख्या परिमिता तावती शृणु सत्तम
As many as are the limited numbers, so many are there; listen, O noble one.
तामुपादाय गणनां शृणु संख्या द्विजोत्तम
Taking up that enumeration, listen to the numbers, O best of twice-born.
त्रिंशत्कला मुहूर्तस्तु त्रिंशता तैर्मनीषिणः
There are thirty kalās in a muhūrta; so say the wise.
रविर्गतिविशेषेण सन्ध्यायां याति नित्यशः
By the particular movement of the sun, he always enters the twilight.
पक्षौ मासा ऋतुश्चाब्दमयने च प्रकीर्तिते
The two fortnights, the months, the seasons, and the solstices are declared.
यावत्संख्या समाख्याता आयुरंतश्च तादृशः 5.1.48.
The number has been stated; the lifespan is likewise.
पक्षौ द्वौ तौ कृतौ मासौ मासौ द्वावृतुरुच्यते
Two fortnights make a month, and two months are said to make a season.
दक्षिणं चोत्तरं चैव संख्यातत्त्वविशारदैः
The southern and northern courses are described by those who are expert in the science of enumeration.
पितॄणां तदहोरात्रमिति कालविदो विदुः
Those who know time say that for the ancestors, that very day and night is reckoned.
कृष्णपक्षे त्विह श्राद्धं पितॄणां वर्तते द्विज
Indeed, in the dark fortnight, the śrāddha for the ancestors takes place, O twice-born one.
देवानां तदहोरात्रं दिवा चैवोत्तरायणम्
For the gods, that day and night is during the day and the northern course.
दिव्यमब्दं शतगुणं दिव्यमब्दसहस्रकम्
A divine year is a hundred times greater, and a thousand divine years likewise.
अहोरात्रं दशगुणं मानवः पक्ष उच्यते
A day and night, multiplied by ten, is called a fortnight for humans.
ऋतुर्मनूनां संप्रोक्तः प्राज्ञैस्तत्त्वार्थदर्शिभिः
A season for humans is declared by the wise who perceive the true meaning.
चत्वार्येव सहस्राणि वर्षाणां तु कृतं युगम्
The Kṛta Yuga consists of exactly four thousand years.