[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) › 3.2.41.40 # Skandapurana 3.2.41.40 Skandapurāṇa 3.2.41.40 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.2.41.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.41.40) 39 atha kadācidbrahmaviṣṇurudrādidevānāṃ dharmāraṇyaṃ pratyāgamanam tatratyaiḥ sarvairbrāhmaṇai- rgobhujākhyavaṇigbhiśca teṣāṃ pūjādisatkārakaraṇam, tairbrahmādibhirdevaisteṣāṃ dharmāra- ṇyanivāsināṃ brāhmaṇānāṃ pṛthakpṛthagvṛttivibhāgaṃ kṛtvā svasthānaṃ prati gamanam, tataḥ paṃcapaṃcāśadgrāmeṣu paṃcadaśasahasrāṇāṃ cāturvidyānāṃ traividyānāṃ ca brāhmaṇānāṃ nivāsavarṇanam, cāturvidyānāṃ paṃcadaśagotranāmāni, sītāpurādipaṃcapaṃcāśadgrā- manāmavarṇanam, atha sītāpurādipaṃcapaṃcāśadgrāmasthānanivāsi cāturvidyavrāhmaṇasa vistaragotrapravaradevatāsvabhāvādivarṇanam, atha hanumatsamīpataḥ samāgatānāṃ traividyabrāhmaṇānāṃ śīlāyādisaptadaśasthānanirūpaṇam, caturviṃśaticāturvidyānāṃ traividyānāṃ ca kiyatkālaparyantaṃ virodha āsīditi varṇanam, atha keṣāṃcicchūdrāṇāṃ bhraṣṭācāravaśena jātibhedavarṇanam, atha kaliyuge prāpte tatratyānāṃ keṣāṃcidvaṇijāṃ madhye bhraṣṭācāravaśātpṛthagācāravaśācca saṃbandhapṛthakkaraṇādivarṇanam, atha pūrvaṃ kumārapālarājabhayātsītāpuraṃ vihāya sābhramatītaṭe nivāsārthaṃ gatānāṃ punarā gatya sukhavāsakasthānanivāsapūrvarkaṃ dhenusaṃcāraṇavṛttyopajīvanavarṇanam tatasteṣu cāturvidyabrāhmaṇānāṃ vidhavāsu kanyāsu gopālavṛttidhārakairbrāhmaṇaiḥ saṃbhogeno tpāditānāṃ kumārāṇāṃ kātībhagolakadhenujanāmnā khyātivarṇanam, atha hanumatsakā- śāgatānāṃ grāmavṛttyadhikāravatāṃ traividyānāṃ trisahasrabrāhmaṇānāṃ madhye katipayaiḥ kuṣṭhipaṃgumūrkhabadhirakāṇakubjamūkādibhiḥ svajātimadhye syavivāhārthaṃ kanya kāyā alābhavaśādyaunasabaṃdhena cāturvidyakanyakābhiḥ sahodvāhena samutpāditānāṃ miśrasaṃbhūtīnāṃ brāhmaṇānāṃ tridalajasaṃjñāvarṇanam, teṣāṃ vṛttivibhāgapūrvakajñātibheda varṇanam................. .... 161 2 > 39. Then, at one time, the arrival of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Rudra, and the other deities at Dharmāraṇya; the worship and honor paid to them by all the local brahmins and the merchants known as Gobhujas; after dividing and assigning individual shares of livelihoods to those brahmins residing in Dharmāraṇya, the departure of Brahmā and the other deities to their own abodes; then the description of the settlement of the fifteen thousand Cāturvidya and Traividya brahmins in fifty-five villages; the names of the fifteen gotras of the Cāturvidyas; the description of the names of the fifty-five villages beginning with Sītāpura; then the detailed description of the gotras, pravaras, deities, temperaments, and so forth of the Cāturvidya brahmins residing in the fifty-five village locations beginning with Sītāpura; then the specification of the seventeen places, beginning with Śīlāyā, of the Traividya brahmins who returned from Hanumat; the description that there was enmity between the twenty-four Cāturvidyas and the Traividyas for a certain time; then the description of the division of castes among certain Śūdras due to lapse of proper conduct; then, when the Kali age arrived, the description of the severance of marital relations and the like among certain local merchants due to lapse of proper conduct and divergent conduct; then the description of those who previously fled Sītāpura out of fear of King Kumārapāla to live on the bank of the Sābharmatī, and who, returning, lived in the settlement of Sukhavāsa and subsisted by pasturing cattle; then the description of the boys begotten by those brahmins following the vocation of cowherds through intercourse with widowed daughters among those Cāturvidya brahmins, who became renowned under the names Kātī, Bhagolaka, and Dhenuja; then the description that among the three thousand Traividya brahmins who came from Hanumat and held rights to the village endowments, certain lepers, cripples, fools, deaf, one-eyed, hunchbacked, and mute men, failing to obtain maidens for their marriage within their own caste, formed marriage relations and wed Cāturvidya maidens, and the brahmins born of that mixed origin were given the name Tridalaja; the description of their division of castes along with the division of livelihoods................. .... 161 2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.2.41.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.41.39) - [Next: 3.2.41.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.41.41) - [Up: 3.2.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.41) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.3.2.41.40) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.41.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.41.40) · Pramāṇa