Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 96
दशमासं ध्रुवं मन्ये मूत्रं पास्यति तर्पितः । भ्रातरो भ्रातरः सत्यं गर्भेऽपि स्युः कथं यदि
daśamāsaṃ dhruvaṃ manye mūtraṃ pāsyati tarpitaḥ | bhrātaro bhrātaraḥ satyaṃ garbhe'pi syuḥ kathaṃ yadi
دس مہینے تک، میں یقین سے کہتا ہوں، رحم میں پلنے والا (جنین) پیشاب پیتا ہے اور اسی سے قائم رہتا ہے۔ اگر ‘بھائی واقعی بھائی ہیں’ تو وہ رحم میں بھی کیسے بھائی ہو سکتے ہیں؟
Unspecified (philosophical/ethical reflection within the māhātmya; speaker not explicit in the excerpt)
Tirtha: Vastrāpatha-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Sages (frame) / internal narrative audience (unspecified)
Scene: A speaker asserts that for ten months the embryo survives by drinking urine in the womb, then questions the boastful claim of brotherhood; the scene is didactic, symbolic rather than graphic.
FAQs
Worldly relations often fail the ideal of harmony; one should seek a higher, dharmic basis for unity beyond mere birth.
The teaching is embedded in the Vastrāpatha-kṣetra-māhātmya of Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa.
No ritual is stated; it is a contemplative argument about human bonds.
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