Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 65
अवैमि त्वामपि नृपद्विजोऽभूः पूर्वजन्मनि । माथुरः शिवशर्माख्यो मायापुर्यां भवान्मृतः
avaimi tvāmapi nṛpadvijo'bhūḥ pūrvajanmani | māthuraḥ śivaśarmākhyo māyāpuryāṃ bhavānmṛtaḥ
அரசே, உன்னையும் நான் அறிவேன்—முன்ஜென்மத்தில் நீ மதுரையைச் சேர்ந்த பிராமணன்; ‘சிவசர்மன்’ எனப் பெயருடையவன்; மாயாபுரியில் நீ மரணமடைந்தாய்।
Skanda (deduced, Kāśīkhaṇḍa dialogue style)
Tirtha: Mathurā; Māyāpurī (as named)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Rājā (the addressed king)
Scene: A sage or divine narrator reveals to an aged king his former identity: a serene brāhmaṇa from Mathurā named Śivaśarman, with a symbolic vignette of his death in Māyāpurī hovering like a memory-scene.
FAQs
Purāṇic teaching links identity across births: prior actions and sacred-place connections shape one’s present station and destiny.
Mathurā and Māyāpurī are mentioned as significant sacred geographies within the broader tīrtha framework.
None; it is a karmic-biographical disclosure within the mahatmya narrative.