Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 34
तत्पुरे क्षत्रियो जात्या मणिभद्र इति स्मृतः । स वै धनेन संयुक्तः पितृपैतामहेन च
tatpure kṣatriyo jātyā maṇibhadra iti smṛtaḥ | sa vai dhanena saṃyuktaḥ pitṛpaitāmahena ca
ആ നഗരത്തിൽ ജന്മത്താൽ ക്ഷത്രിയനായ മണിഭദ്രൻ എന്ന പേരിൽ പ്രസിദ്ധനായ ഒരാൾ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു. പിതാവിലും പിതാമഹന്മാരിലും നിന്നുള്ള പാരമ്പര്യധനത്തോടെ അവൻ സമൃദ്ധനായിരുന്നു.
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic voice within Tīrthamāhātmya; likely Sūta relating the Māhātmya to Ṛṣis)
Scene: A prosperous fortified city; Maṇibhadra, a kṣatriya of notable lineage, stands amid storehouses and ancestral wealth—an auspicious exterior hinting at inner moral testing.
FAQs
Lineage and wealth are presented as karmic endowments that set the stage for dharmic choices and spiritual outcomes.
The setting remains Vaidiśa within Nāgara Khaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya; Maṇibhadra’s story likely connects to the tīrtha/deity praised in this chapter.
None; it begins a character-focused narrative that will typically culminate in a tīrtha act (such as dāna, snāna, pūjā) in subsequent verses.