Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 3
युगानां कुरुते राज्यं मनवश्च तथा परे । स्वायंभुवप्रभृतयो यथा शक्रास्तथा स्थिताः
yugānāṃ kurute rājyaṃ manavaśca tathā pare | svāyaṃbhuvaprabhṛtayo yathā śakrāstathā sthitāḥ
Durch die Zeitalter hindurch üben auch die Manus die Herrschaft aus, ebenso die anderen. Beginnend mit Svāyambhuva sind sie fest eingesetzt—so wie die Indras (Śakras) jeweils in ihrer eigenen Reihenfolge eingesetzt sind.
Skanda (deduced; exact speaker not in snippet)
Listener: dvijāḥ
Scene: A procession of Manus beginning with Svāyambhuva, each holding a dharma-śāstra/palm-leaf, paralleled by successive Indras with vajra—two aligned columns showing orderly succession across yugas.
FAQs
Cosmic order (ṛta/dharma) operates through appointed rulers (Manus and Indras), reminding devotees that authority is stewardship under divine law.
No single tīrtha is named in this verse; it provides cosmological context within a tīrtha-glorifying chapter.
None; the focus is the succession of Manus and Indras.