Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 80
मृते पितरि बालस्त्वं स्वभिषिक्तः स्वमंत्रिभिः । अहं हि वंगराजस्य संजाता दुहिता किल
mṛte pitari bālastvaṃ svabhiṣiktaḥ svamaṃtribhiḥ | ahaṃ hi vaṃgarājasya saṃjātā duhitā kila
«لما مات أبوك كنتَ بعدُ غلامًا، غير أنّ وزراءك هم الذين أجروا لك طقس الأبهِشيكا ومسحوك ملكًا. وأما أنا، فحقًّا وُلدتُ ابنةً لملك وَنْغا».
Mṛgyu
Tirtha: Vastrāpatha-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka et al. (implied)
Scene: A young prince is ceremonially anointed by ministers; parallel vignette shows a princess born in Vaṅga; the speaker narrates these as karmic turns to the listening king.
FAQs
Worldly power arises through circumstance; lineage and political events are portrayed as karmically conditioned.
Vastrāpatha-kṣetra in the Prabhāsa tradition forms the setting, though the verse itself is genealogical narration.
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