Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 64
इति संक्षेपतो वत्स कथितो धर्मसंग्रहः । अन्येषु च पुराणेषु विस्तरेण प्रकीर्तितः
iti saṃkṣepato vatsa kathito dharmasaṃgrahaḥ | anyeṣu ca purāṇeṣu vistareṇa prakīrtitaḥ
یوں، اے پیارے بچے، دھرم کا یہ مجموعہ اختصار سے بیان کیا گیا؛ دوسرے پرانوں میں اسے تفصیل کے ساتھ بیان کیا گیا ہے۔
Unknown (speaker addressing a listener as vatsa; not explicit in the snippet)
Listener: vat्सा (disciple/son-figure)
Scene: A teacher addressing a ‘dear child’ disciple, palm-leaf manuscripts stacked nearby, gesture indicating ‘this is brief; elsewhere it is detailed’.
FAQs
Dharma is vast; a brief instruction can guide practice, while the broader Purāṇic tradition preserves fuller elaborations.
None; the verse serves as a concluding transition for a teaching section.
No specific rite is prescribed here; it closes a summarized dharma instruction.