Skandapurana 3.2.10.3.1

3.2.10.3.1

vyāsa uvāca .. ..
śṛṇu rājanyathāvṛttaṃ dharmmāraṇye śubhaṃ matam ..
yadidaṃ kathayiṣyāmi aśeṣāghaughanāśanam ...1 ..
ajeśena tadā rājanpreritena svayaṃbhuvā ..
kāmadhenuḥ samāhūtā kathayāmāsa tāṃ prati .. 2 ..
viprebhyo'nucarāndehi ekaikasmai dvijātaye ..
dvau dvau śuddhātmakau caivaṃ dehi mātaḥ prasīda me .. 3 ..
tathetyuktvā mahādhenuḥ kṣīreṇollekhayaddharām ..
huṃkārāttasya niṣkrāṃtāḥ śikhāsūtradharā narāḥ .. 4 ..
ṣaṭtriṃśacca sahasrāṇi vaṇijaśca mahābalāḥ ..
sopavītā mahādakṣāḥ sarvaśāstraviśāradāḥ .. 5 ..
dvijabhaktisamāyuktā brahmaṇyāste taponvitāḥ ..
purāṇajñāḥ sadācārā dhārmikā bahmabhojakāḥ .. 6 ..
svarge devāḥ praśaṃsaṃti dharmāraṇyanivāsinaḥ ..
tapo'dhyayanadāneṣu sarvakālepyatīṃdriyāḥ .. 7 ..
ekaikasmai dvijāyaiva dattaṃ jātu caradvayam ..
vāḍavasya ca yadgotraṃ purā proktaṃ mahīpate .. 8 ..
parasparaṃ ca tadgotraṃ tasya cānucarasya ca ..
iti kṛtvā vyavasthāṃ ca nyavasaṃstatra bhūmiṣu ..9..
tataśca śiṣyatā devairdattā cānucarānbhuvi ..
brahmaṇā kathitaṃ sarvaṃ teṣāmanuhitāya vai ..3.2.10.10..
kurudhvaṃ vacanaṃ caiṣāṃ dadadhvaṃ ca yadicchitam ..
samitpuṣpakuśādīni ānayadhvaṃ dinedine .. 11 ..
anujñayaiṣāṃ vartadhvaṃ māvajñāṃ kuruta kvacit ..
jātakaṃ nāmakaraṇaṃ tathānnaprāśanaṃ śubham .. 12 ..
kṣauraṃ caivopanayanaṃ mahānāmnyādikaṃ tathā ..
kriyākarmādikaṃ yacca vrataṃ dānopavāsakam .. 13 ..
anujñayaiṣāṃ kartavyaṃ kājeśā idamabuvan ..
anujñayā vinaiṣāṃ yaḥ kāryamārabhate yadi .. 14 ..
darśaṃ vā śrāddhakāryaṃ vā śubhaṃ vā yadi vā'śubham ..

Vyāsa said: / Listen, O king, to what happened in Dharmāraṇya, considered auspicious, / which I shall relate, destroying heaps of all sins. / Urged then by the Lord of the unborm [Viṣṇu], the self-manifest [Brahmā], O king, / summoned Kāmadhenu and spoke to her: / “Provide attendants for the brahmins, for each twice-born man / provide two pure-souled ones; O mother, be gracious to me!” / Saying “So be it,” the great cow marked the ground with milk; / from her bellow there came forth men wearing tufts of hair and sacred threads: / thirty-six thousand merchants endowed with great strength, / wearing the sacred thread, highly skilled, versed in all treatises, / endowed with devotion to the twice-born, pious, possessing austerity, / knowing the Purāṇas, of good conduct, righteous, feeding brahmins. / In heaven the gods praise the dwellers of Dharmāraṇya, / transcending the senses at all times in austerity, study, and gifting. / To each twice-born was given a pair of attendants; / and whatever was the gotra of the brahmin previously declared, O king, / that same gotra belonged mutually to him and to his attendant. / Having thus made this arrangement, they dwelt there on the land. / And then discipleship and attendants were granted on earth by the gods; / all was explained by Brahmā for their mutual benefit: / “Carry out their command and give whatever is desired; / bring kindling, flowers, kuśa grass, and the rest day by day. / Conduct yourselves by their permission; never show disrespect. / The natal rite, naming, and auspicious first feeding of solids, / tonsure, investiture with the sacred thread, the Mahānāmnī vows and the like, / whatever ritual action and work, observance, donation, or fast, / must be performed with their permission.” The lords of creation said this: / “If someone begins a rite without their permission, / whether the new-moon day ritual, ancestral rites, or anything auspicious or inauspicious,”