Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 2
सांप्रतं शीलजां ब्रूहि नष्टवंशश्च यो भवेत् । पितामहं न जानाति न च मातामहीं निजाम् । तस्य शुद्धिः कथं कार्या नागरोऽस्मीति यो वदेत्
sāṃprataṃ śīlajāṃ brūhi naṣṭavaṃśaśca yo bhavet | pitāmahaṃ na jānāti na ca mātāmahīṃ nijām | tasya śuddhiḥ kathaṃ kāryā nāgaro'smīti yo vadet
اب کردار پر مبنی تطہیر بیان کریں؛ اگر کسی کا نسب کھو گیا ہو—وہ اپنے دادا یا اپنی نانی کو نہیں جانتا—تو اس شخص کی تطہیر کیسے کی جائے جو کہتا ہے، 'میں ناگر ہوں'؟
Ānarta
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Viśvāmitra (addressed indirectly as ‘brūhi’)
Scene: A worried petitioner speaks of not knowing grandparents; elders listen gravely; symbolic broken family tree behind him; a path leading to a temple/tīrtha suggests restoration through dharma and pilgrimage rites.
FAQs
When lineage proof is unavailable, dharma also considers conduct (śīla) as a basis for determining purification and eligibility.
The inquiry occurs within the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra-māhātmya framework in the Nāgara-khaṇḍa.
A request for the method of śuddhi for a naṣṭavaṃśa (unknown lineage) claimant to Nāgara status, to be determined via śīla.