Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 16
कार्यं स्त्रीभिश्च शूद्रैश्च ह्यमंत्रं पंचयज्ञकम् । पंचयज्ञैश्च संतुष्टा यथैषां पितृदेवताः
kāryaṃ strībhiśca śūdraiśca hyamaṃtraṃ paṃcayajñakam | paṃcayajñaiśca saṃtuṣṭā yathaiṣāṃ pitṛdevatāḥ
নারী ও শূদ্রদেরও মন্ত্রবিহীন পঞ্চযজ্ঞ পালন করা উচিত; এই পঞ্চযজ্ঞে তাঁদের পিতৃ-দেবতাগণ যথাযথভাবে সন্তুষ্ট হন।
Sūta (deduced for Nāgarakhaṇḍa māhātmya-style narration)
Type: ghat
Scene: Women and Śūdras at a riverbank performing simple offerings: bathing, pouring water with folded hands in remembrance, lighting a small lamp/fire, welcoming a traveler-guest; pitṛ-devatās shown as subtle ancestral presences receiving satisfaction.
FAQs
Dharma is sustained through accessible daily duties; sincere performance, even without mantras, brings ancestral satisfaction.
Not specified in this verse; it provides dharma-guidance within the Tīrthamāhātmya narrative setting.
Pañcayajña should be performed in an amaṃtraka (non-mantric) form by women and Śūdras.