Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 40
अथ तां च मृतां दृष्ट्वा रुदित्वा च चिरं द्विजाः । याज्ञवल्क्यः सभार्यस्तु दत्त्वा वह्निं च शोकधृक् । जगाम स्वाश्रमं पश्चाद्दत्त्वा च सलिलाञ्जलिम्
atha tāṃ ca mṛtāṃ dṛṣṭvā ruditvā ca ciraṃ dvijāḥ | yājñavalkyaḥ sabhāryastu dattvā vahniṃ ca śokadhṛk | jagāma svāśramaṃ paścāddattvā ca salilāñjalim
فلما رأوها قد ماتت بكى ذوو الميلادين طويلاً. ثم إن ياجنَفَلكيا، ومعه زوجته، وقلبه مثقل بالحزن، أجرى شعائر الجنازة بأن سلّمها إلى النار؛ وبعد أن قدّم سكبَ الماء قربانًا، رجع إلى أشرمه.
Unspecified narrator (Purāṇic narration within Nāgara-khaṇḍa)
Scene: Brahmins weep; Yājñavalkya, sorrowful, performs cremation by placing the body on the pyre and lighting the fire; afterward he stands by water offering salilāñjali, then walks back toward the hermitage.
FAQs
Even amid grief, dharma is upheld through proper last rites—fire-offering for the departed and water-oblation—honoring the soul’s transition.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it supports the larger tīrtha narrative by modeling dharmic conduct.
Antyeṣṭi (consigning to fire/cremation) and salilāñjali (offering water-oblation) are explicitly mentioned.