Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 5
गालव उवाच । अपुत्रस्य गतिर्नास्ति मृतः स्वर्गं न गच्छति । द्वादशानामपि तथा यद्येकोऽपि न विद्यते
gālava uvāca | aputrasya gatirnāsti mṛtaḥ svargaṃ na gacchati | dvādaśānāmapi tathā yadyeko'pi na vidyate
قال غالافا: «مَن لا ابنَ له فلا مسارَ له (غَتي) على الوجه اللائق؛ فإذا مات لا يذهب إلى السماء. وكذلك، من بين الأنواع الاثني عشر المعترف بها من الأبناء، إن لم يوجد منها واحدٌ حتى، قيل إن هذه العاقبة تلحقه».
Gālava
Listener: Brāhmaṇas/Ṛṣis
Scene: Gālava speaks with firm compassion, raising a hand in instructive gesture; Vidura listens, visibly sobered by the pronouncement about svarga and gati.
FAQs
It reflects a traditional dharma view that lineage and the continuation of rites are crucial for posthumous welfare.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it is a doctrinal exchange embedded in the surrounding kṣetra-māhātmya narrative.
Implicitly, the necessity of having a son (in some recognized form) to sustain ancestral rites; no explicit ritual is described in this line.