Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 52
अपि द्वादशधा राजन्नौरसादिसमु द्भवाः । तेषामेकतमोऽप्यत्र न दैवाज्जायते सुतः
api dvādaśadhā rājannaurasādisamu dbhavāḥ | teṣāmekatamo'pyatra na daivājjāyate sutaḥ
हे राजन्, औरस इत्यादी बारा प्रकारचे पुत्र सांगितले आहेत; तरी येथे त्यांपैकी एकही केवळ दैवामुळे उत्पन्न होत नाही।
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.