Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 3
युगानां कुरुते राज्यं मनवश्च तथा परे । स्वायंभुवप्रभृतयो यथा शक्रास्तथा स्थिताः
yugānāṃ kurute rājyaṃ manavaśca tathā pare | svāyaṃbhuvaprabhṛtayo yathā śakrāstathā sthitāḥ
युगायुगांत मनूही राज्य करतात आणि इतरही तसेच. स्वायंभुवापासून पुढे जसे क्रमाने स्थित आहेत, तसेच शक्र (इंद्र)ही आपल्या-आपल्या काळात प्रतिष्ठित असतात.
Skanda (deduced; exact speaker not in snippet)
Listener: dvijāḥ
Scene: A procession of Manus beginning with Svāyambhuva, each holding a dharma-śāstra/palm-leaf, paralleled by successive Indras with vajra—two aligned columns showing orderly succession across yugas.
FAQs
Cosmic order (ṛta/dharma) operates through appointed rulers (Manus and Indras), reminding devotees that authority is stewardship under divine law.
No single tīrtha is named in this verse; it provides cosmological context within a tīrtha-glorifying chapter.
None; the focus is the succession of Manus and Indras.