Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 67
त्वं गत्वा मम वाक्येन विप्रान्नागरसंभवान् । प्रब्रूहि गोत्रमुख्यांश्च ह्यष्टषष्टिप्रमाणतः
tvaṃ gatvā mama vākyena viprānnāgarasaṃbhavān | prabrūhi gotramukhyāṃśca hyaṣṭaṣaṣṭipramāṇataḥ
“Pergilah dengan pesanku, dan sampaikan kepada para Brāhmaṇa yang lahir dalam kalangan Nāgara; umumkan juga para ketua gotra—menurut bilangan enam puluh lapan.”
Brahmā (Pitāmaha/Padmaja)
Scene: Brahmā issues a clear command: the emissary must go and address Nāgara-born brāhmaṇas and the principal men of sixty-eight lineages.
FAQs
Sacred projects require orderly community participation—lineage leaders and learned Brāhmaṇas collaborate under divine instruction.
The instruction supports arranging the sacred ‘sthāna’ connected to Audumbarī within this tīrtha-mahātmya.
No specific rite; it prescribes summoning and formally informing gotra leaders for coordinated sacred service.