Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 52
वेदोक्तैर्विविधैर्मन्त्रैर्या पूजा चास्य संस्थिता । न भविष्यति सा लोके कथंचिदपि पुत्रक
vedoktairvividhairmantrairyā pūjā cāsya saṃsthitā | na bhaviṣyati sā loke kathaṃcidapi putraka
বেদোক্ত নানাবিধ মন্ত্রে যি পূজা ইয়াৰ স্থাপিত হৈছিল, সেই পূজা এই লোকত কোনো প্ৰকাৰেও নহ’ব, হে পুত্ৰ।
Brāhmaṇa (father)
Type: kshetra
Listener: (contextual) audience/ṛṣi; within verse: elder addressing 'putraka'
Scene: An elder instructs his son that the earlier Veda-mantra-based worship once established will no longer manifest in the world; the setting suggests a tīrtha precinct with a sense of transition between ritual ages.
FAQs
Sacred order can be disrupted by adharmic causes; restoring dharma is necessary for proper worship to flourish.
No specific tīrtha is named in this shloka; it remains within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya frame.
It references Veda-based mantra-pūjā, but states its non-occurrence due to the narrative’s curse condition; no step-by-step rite is given.
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