Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 42
किं वा ते बहुनोक्तेन भूयो भूयश्च पुत्रक । आनृण्यं जायते यद्वत्पितॄणां तत्तथा शृणु
kiṃ vā te bahunoktena bhūyo bhūyaśca putraka | ānṛṇyaṃ jāyate yadvatpitṝṇāṃ tattathā śṛṇu
ما الحاجةُ إلى الإكثارِ من القولِ مرارًا، يا بُنَيَّ الحبيب؟ فاسمعْ إذن كيف يُنالُ البراءُ من الدَّينِ تجاهَ الأسلافِ (الآباء الأوّلين).
Unspecified in snippet (likely the same mother/elder instructing the son)
Scene: An elder (mother) instructs the son: ‘hear how one becomes free of ancestral debt’; symbolic backdrop shows pitṛs receiving water offerings, with a ledger-like motif of ‘debt’ being erased.
FAQs
A key dharmic goal is discharging one’s obligation to the ancestors (pitṛ-ṛṇa) through proper conduct and prescribed duties.
Not specified in the verse; it introduces a teaching often connected with tīrtha practices but does not name a location.
The verse signals instruction about pitṛ-related discharge of debt; specific rites (e.g., śrāddha/tarpaṇa) are not explicitly named here.