Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 52
तथा शूद्रेण संजज्ञे ब्राह्मण्यां सुरसत्तम । भिल्लाख्यश्चापि भिल्लेन चंडालश्च प्रजायते
tathā śūdreṇa saṃjajñe brāhmaṇyāṃ surasattama | bhillākhyaścāpi bhillena caṃḍālaśca prajāyate
তদ্ৰূপে, হে দেৱসত্তম, যেতিয়া ব্ৰাহ্মণী শূদ্ৰৰ দ্বাৰা গৰ্ভধাৰণ কৰে, তেতিয়া ‘ভিল্ল’ নামে সন্তান জন্মে; আৰু ভিল্লৰ পৰা চণ্ডাল উৎপন্ন হয়।
Skanda (deduced from Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya dialogic style)
Type: kshetra
Listener: a deva addressed as 'surasattama' (not explicitly named here)
Scene: A solemn instruction scene: the narrator gestures in enumeration (two outcomes), while the deva listener appears grave; symbolic motifs (womb/field) may be shown as a stylized lotus-field behind them.
FAQs
It presents a Purāṇic depiction of social mixing and its named outcomes, as part of a broader moral narrative about dharma’s decline across ages.
This verse is within the Tīrthamāhātmya stream of the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, but this specific line focuses on yuga/social description rather than naming a particular tīrtha.
None in this verse; it is descriptive, not a direct instruction on snāna, dāna, or japa.