Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 10
देवैः सर्वैः स सम्प्रोक्तस्ततस्तां च वराननाम् । ततः पत्न्युत्थधर्मेण योजयामास सत्वरम्
devaiḥ sarvaiḥ sa samproktastatastāṃ ca varānanām | tataḥ patnyutthadharmeṇa yojayāmāsa satvaram
সকলো দেৱতাই এইদৰে ক’লে, তেওঁ তেতিয়া সেই সু-মুখী কন্যাক গ্ৰহণ কৰিলে; আৰু পত্নী-ধৰ্মৰ বিধি অনুসৰি তৎক্ষণাৎ তেওঁক নিজৰ সৈতে বিবাহ-বন্ধনত যুক্ত কৰিলে।
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) to the sages (deduced)
Type: kshetra
Listener: surēśvarī (addressed as ‘O Lady of the gods’ in the surrounding passage)
Scene: A divine assembly endorses a marriage; the groom accepts a fair-faced maiden and performs the joining according to marital dharma, with ritual gestures suggesting a formal saṃskāra.
FAQs
Dharma is upheld through timely action; sacred obligations (especially yajña-linked) are completed by rightful social and divine sanction.
The tīrtha’s greatness is reinforced through the narrated dharma-event; the verse itself does not name the location.
Marriage as dharma (patnī-uttha-dharma) is referenced; the specific rite is implied rather than detailed.
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