Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 56
ततः सुगं नः पन्थेति तस्य मंत्रं विधाय सः । समाचरत्प्रहृष्टात्मा धर्मराजस्य शृण्वतः
tataḥ sugaṃ naḥ pantheti tasya maṃtraṃ vidhāya saḥ | samācaratprahṛṣṭātmā dharmarājasya śṛṇvataḥ
Dann, nachdem er das Mantra „Möge unser Weg leicht sein“ gefasst hatte, vollzog er das Ritual mit freudigem Herzen, während Dharmarāja zuhörte.
Narrator (speaker not explicitly named in this verse)
Type: kshetra
Listener: (contextual) audience
Scene: The son composes a mantra—‘May our path be easy’—and performs the rite joyfully while Dharmarāja listens, suggesting a consecration or yātrā-commencement ritual under dharmic oversight.
FAQs
Dharmic practice done with gladness and sincerity, even in simple mantra-form, is acknowledged by Dharmarāja.
The verse belongs to a tīrtha-glorification section (Tīrthamāhātmya) in Nāgarakhaṇḍa; the exact site is not named in this excerpt.
The creation/establishment and performance of a specific mantra-rite: “sugaṃ naḥ panthā” (“May our path be easy”).