Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 2
दक्षस्य तनया पूर्वं सप्तविंशतिसंख्यया । उद्वाहिता हि सोमेन पूर्वं ब्राह्मणसत्तमाः
dakṣasya tanayā pūrvaṃ saptaviṃśatisaṃkhyayā | udvāhitā hi somena pūrvaṃ brāhmaṇasattamāḥ
اے برہمنوں میں افضل! پہلے دَکش کی بیٹیاں—جو ستائیس تھیں—چندر دیو سوما کے نکاح میں دی گئی تھیں۔
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic voice within Tīrthamāhātmya; speaker not explicit in the snippet)
Tirtha: Saptaviṃśatikā-devī-sthāna (legendary basis)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Brāhmaṇas/ṛṣis
Scene: A narrative tableau: Dakṣa’s twenty-seven daughters, luminous as star-maidens, are ceremonially given in marriage to Soma, the Moon-god, who stands radiant with a crescent crown.
FAQs
It frames a dhārmic narrative where marital harmony and divine order become a backdrop for later devotion and the seeking of grace.
The verse sits within Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya setting; the snippet itself does not name the tīrtha, but prepares the episode that unfolds at a sacred kṣetra.
None in this verse; it is genealogical-narrative setup.