[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 3.2.2.22\_10 # Skandapurana 3.2.2.22\_10 Skandapurāṇa 3.2.2.22\_10 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.2.2.22\_10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.2.22_10) .. yudhiṣṭhira uvāca .. .. dharmāraṇyeti tridaśaiḥ kadā nāma pratiṣṭhitam .. pāvanaṃ bhūtale jātaṃ kasmāttena vinirmitam .. 23 .. tīrthabhūtaṃ hi kasmācca kāraṇāttadvadasva me .. brāhmaṇāḥ katisaṃ khyākāḥ kena vai sthāpitāḥ purā .. 24 .. aṣṭādaśasahasrāṇi kimarthaṃ sthāpitāni vai .. kasminnaṃśe samutpannā brāhmaṇā brahma sattamāḥ .. 25 .. sarvavidyāsu niṣṇātā vedavedāṃgapāragāḥ .. ṛgvedeṣu ca niṣṇātā yajurvedakṛtaśramāḥ .. 26 .. sāmavedāṃgapārajñāstraividyā dharma vittamāḥ .. taponiṣṭhā śubhācārāḥ satyavrataparāyaṇāḥ .. 27 .. māsopavāsaiḥ kṛśitāstathā cāṃdrāyaṇādibhiḥ .. sadācārāśca brahmaṇyāḥ kena nityo pajīvinaḥ .. tatsarvamāditaḥ kṛtsnaṃ brūhi me vadatāṃ vara .. 28 .. dānavāstatra daiteyā bhūtavetālasaṃbhavāḥ .. rākṣasāśca piśācāśca udvejaṃte kathaṃ na tān .. 29 .. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ tṛtīye brahmakhaṇḍe pūrvārdhe dharmāraṇyamāhātmye yudhiṣṭhirapraśnarṇanaṃnāma dvitī yo'dhyāyaḥ .. 2 .. > Yudhiṣṭhira said: / When was the name "Dharmāraṇya" established by the thirty \[gods\]? / How did it come into being on the earth, and why was it created by him? / For what reason did it become a sacred ford? Tell me that. / How many were the brahmins, and by whom were they settled long ago? / For what purpose were the eighteen thousand settled? / From what part were those brahmins, best among the twice-born, born? / Skilled in all branches of learning, masters of the Vedas and Vedāṅgas, / well-versed in the Ṛgveda and having exerted themselves in the Yajurveda, / knowing the far shore of the Sāmaveda's limbs, knowing the threefold knowledge, foremost in dharma, / devoted to austerity, of auspicious conduct, intent on vows of truth, / emaciated by month-long fasts and by cāndrāyaṇa penances and the like, / of good conduct, friendly to brahmins—by what do they make their daily livelihood? / Tell me all that entirely from the beginning, O best of speakers! / How is it that the dānavas, daiteyas, beings born as bhūtas and vetālas, / rākṣasas, and piśācas there do not torment them? / Thus ends the second chapter, titled "The Description of Yudhiṣṭhira's Questions," in the māhātmya of Dharmāraṇya, in the first half of the Brahmakhaṇḍa, in the venerable Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.2.2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.2.22) - [Next: 3.2.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.3.1) - [Up: 3.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.3.2.2.22_10) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.2.22_10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.2.22_10) · Pramāṇa