Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 1
त्रिजातो ब्राह्मणस्तत्र किन्नामा कस्य सम्भवः । किंगोत्रश्चैव किंसंज्ञः कीर्तयस्व महामते
trijāto brāhmaṇastatra kinnāmā kasya sambhavaḥ | kiṃgotraścaiva kiṃsaṃjñaḥ kīrtayasva mahāmate
وہ برہمن جس کا نام تری جات تھا—اس کا پورا نام کیا تھا، وہ کس سے پیدا ہوا، اس کا گوتر کیا تھا، اور کس لقب سے معروف تھا؟ اے عظیم رائے والے، بیان کیجیے۔
Inquirer (unnamed in snippet; likely a sage addressing Sūta in the frame-dialogue)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (contextual frame)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣi-questioner (unspecified here)
Scene: A questioning sage/kingly inquirer respectfully asks a narrator about Trijāta’s full identity; the narrator sits poised to recount genealogy, with a sacred grove/temple backdrop.
FAQs
It frames the importance of lineage and identity in Purāṇic narration, grounding sacred history in remembered genealogies.
The ongoing narrative belongs to Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra māhātmya within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa.
None; it is a question initiating biographical details.