Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 61
मायानुभावेरितयोः पित्रोः सुरतसंभ्रमात् । देह उत्पद्यते कोपि पुंयोषित्क्लीबलक्षणः
māyānubhāveritayoḥ pitroḥ suratasaṃbhramāt | deha utpadyate kopi puṃyoṣitklībalakṣaṇaḥ
মায়ার প্রভাবে প্রেরিত পিতা-মাতার সুরত-সম্ভ্রম থেকে এক দেহ উৎপন্ন হয়, যাতে পুরুষ, নারী বা নপুংসকতার লক্ষণ প্রকাশ পায়।
Unknown (context not provided; likely a Purāṇic narrator within Brahmottarakhaṇḍa)
Scene: Symbolic conception scene rendered modestly: parents as archetypal figures under a veil of māyā (a translucent goddess-like shroud), with a luminous jīva entering a forming body; three subtle emblems indicating male/female/neutral characteristics.
FAQs
Embodiment is a māyā-conditioned process; recognizing this reduces ego-identification with bodily attributes.
None is named; the verse addresses cosmological/psychological causation of birth.
No ritual is mentioned; it is explanatory rather than prescriptive.