Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 24
पिता यस्य तु निर्वृत्तो जीवते च पितामहः । पितुः स नाम संकीर्त्य कीर्तयेत्प्रपितामहम्
pitā yasya tu nirvṛtto jīvate ca pitāmahaḥ | pituḥ sa nāma saṃkīrtya kīrtayetprapitāmaham
Wenn der Vater eines Mannes bereits verschieden ist, der Großvater jedoch noch lebt, dann soll er, nachdem er den Namen des Vaters ausgesprochen hat, den Namen des Urgroßvaters nennen.
Skanda (deduced)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Gṛhastha performers (implied)
Scene: A family śrāddha where the living grandfather sits present; the performer recites the deceased father’s name and then the great-grandfather’s, with the priest guiding the sequence.
FAQs
Dharma preserves lineage-harmony by aligning ritual address with the living and the departed in the ancestral chain.
No named site appears; the verse is procedural within the tīrtha-oriented chapter.
When the father is deceased but the grandfather lives, recite the father’s name and then invoke the great-grandfather.