Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 24
युधिष्ठिर उवाच । अभार्यास्ते महातेजा गोजा अनुचरास्तथा । उद्वाहिता कथं ब्रह्मन्त्सुतास्तेषां कदाऽभवन्
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | abhāryāste mahātejā gojā anucarāstathā | udvāhitā kathaṃ brahmantsutāsteṣāṃ kadā'bhavan
قال يودهيشتيرا: «يا ذا البهاء العظيم—إن أولئك الأتباع المولودين من البقرة كانوا بلا زوجات. أيها البرهمن، كيف زُوِّجوا، ومتى وُلد لهم الأبناء؟»
Yudhiṣṭhira
Listener: Yudhiṣṭhira (as questioner)
Scene: A forest-hermitage discourse: Yudhiṣṭhira seated respectfully before Vyāsa, asking about cow-born attendants who were wife-less and how their marriages and children came to be.
FAQs
Dharma is sustained through orderly social continuity—marriage and progeny are treated as part of cosmic and societal stability.
None in this verse; it is a narrative question within the Dharmāraṇya-khaṇḍa dialogue.
No ritual is prescribed; the verse asks about udvāha (marriage) as a dharmic institution.