Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 52
अपि द्वादशधा राजन्नौरसादिसमु द्भवाः । तेषामेकतमोऽप्यत्र न दैवाज्जायते सुतः
api dvādaśadhā rājannaurasādisamu dbhavāḥ | teṣāmekatamo'pyatra na daivājjāyate sutaḥ
ഹേ രാജാവേ, ഔരസാദിയായി പുത്രന്മാർ പന്ത്രണ്ടുവിധമെന്ന് പറയപ്പെടുന്നു; എങ്കിലും ഇവിടെ അവരിൽ ഒരുവനും വെറും ദൈവവശാൽ മാത്രം ജനിക്കുന്നില്ല।
Unknown (Nāgarakhaṇḍa narrator addressing a king; speaker not explicit in snippet)
Type: kshetra
Listener: rājā
Scene: A teacher enumerates the twelve types of sons to a king, with symbolic icons (cradle, adoption gesture, ritual fire) indicating different modes of sonship; emphasis on effort over fate.
FAQs
Progeny and auspicious outcomes are linked to dharma and right action, not to fate alone.
The verse sits within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya context; the specific tīrtha is not named in this shloka excerpt.
No direct ritual is prescribed here; it sets up the need for dharmic acts that follow in subsequent verses.