Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 326
एकादशसमा ये च बहिर्ग्रामे वसंति ते । एवं भेदाः समभवन्नाना मोढद्विजन्मनाम् । युगानुसारात्कालेन ज्ञातीनां च वृषस्य वा
ekādaśasamā ye ca bahirgrāme vasaṃti te | evaṃ bhedāḥ samabhavannānā moḍhadvijanmanām | yugānusārātkālena jñātīnāṃ ca vṛṣasya vā
പതിനൊന്ന് വർഷം ഗ്രാമത്തിന് പുറത്തു താമസിച്ചവരാൽ—ഇങ്ങനെ മോഢ ദ്വിജന്മാരിൽ പലവിധ ഭേദങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടായി. യുഗക്രമാനുസരിച്ച് കാലം കടന്നപ്പോൾ ജ്ഞാതികളിലും വൃഷ (വംശശാഖ) സംബന്ധിച്ചും ഭേദങ്ങൾ പ്രകടമായി.
Narrator (contextual; prior speaker not explicit in this verse)
Scene: A semi-chronicle tableau: groups of twice-born families living outside a village boundary for ‘eleven years’, elders marking genealogies, and subtle visual separation into sub-groups as time cycles (yugas) are symbolized in the sky.
FAQs
It frames social and clan distinctions as historically time-conditioned (yuga- and kāla-dependent), urging readers to see dharma-practice as transmitted through evolving tradition rather than mere rivalry.
No single tīrtha is praised directly in this verse; the focus is on community and dharma-lineage developments within the Dharmāraṇya narrative.
No explicit rite is prescribed here; it describes the emergence of divisions connected with residence and lineage over time.