Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 61
मायानुभावेरितयोः पित्रोः सुरतसंभ्रमात् । देह उत्पद्यते कोपि पुंयोषित्क्लीबलक्षणः
māyānubhāveritayoḥ pitroḥ suratasaṃbhramāt | deha utpadyate kopi puṃyoṣitklībalakṣaṇaḥ
मायेच्या प्रभावाने प्रेरित माता-पित्यांच्या सुरत-सम्भ्रमातून एक देह उत्पन्न होतो; त्यात पुरुष, स्त्री किंवा नपुंसक अशी लक्षणे दिसतात.
Unknown (context not provided; likely a Purāṇic narrator within Brahmottarakhaṇḍa)
Scene: Symbolic conception scene rendered modestly: parents as archetypal figures under a veil of māyā (a translucent goddess-like shroud), with a luminous jīva entering a forming body; three subtle emblems indicating male/female/neutral characteristics.
FAQs
Embodiment is a māyā-conditioned process; recognizing this reduces ego-identification with bodily attributes.
None is named; the verse addresses cosmological/psychological causation of birth.
No ritual is mentioned; it is explanatory rather than prescriptive.