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Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 29

Devanagari script

जनके मृत्युमापन्ने श्राद्धपक्षे समागते । पितामहादेः कर्तव्यं श्राद्धं यन्नैकपिंडता

Transliteration

janake mṛtyumāpanne śrāddhapakṣe samāgate | pitāmahādeḥ kartavyaṃ śrāddhaṃ yannaikapiṃḍatā

Translation

Wenn der Vater den Tod erlitten hat und die śrāddha-Zeit (śrāddha-pakṣa) herankommt, soll śrāddha für den Großvater und die weiteren Ahnen vollzogen werden, weil der Zustand eines gemeinsam geteilten einzigen piṇḍa (naika-piṇḍatā) noch nicht besteht.

Word by Word
जनकेwhen/at (the time of) Janaka
जनके:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootजनक (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/सप्तमी), एकवचन — locative singular
मृत्युम्death
मृत्युम्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootमृत्यु (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन — accusative singular
आपन्नेhaving occurred (having befallen)
आपन्ने:
Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootआपद् (धातु) + आपन्न (कृदन्त, क्त)
Formक्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त (past passive participle), पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन — agreeing with जनके; ‘having met/occurred’
श्राद्धपक्षेin the śrāddha fortnight
श्राद्धपक्षे:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootश्राद्ध (प्रातिपदिक) + पक्ष (प्रातिपदिक)
Formषष्ठी-तत्पुरुष समास (श्राद्धस्य पक्षः), पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन — locative singular
समागतेhaving come/arrived
समागते:
Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootसम् + आ + गम् (धातु) + समागत (कृदन्त, क्त)
Formक्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त, पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन — agreeing with श्राद्धपक्षे; ‘having arrived’
पितामहादेःof the grandfather and others
पितामहादेः:
Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootपितामह (प्रातिपदिक) + आदि (प्रातिपदिक)
Formसमाहारार्थे ‘आदि’-तत्पुरुष (पितामहः आदिः येषाम्), पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/षष्ठी), एकवचन — genitive singular
कर्तव्यम्to be performed/should be done
कर्तव्यम्:
Vidheyavisheshana (Predicate adjective/विधेय-विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootकृ (धातु) + कर्तव्य (कृदन्त, तव्यत्)
Formतव्यत्-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त (gerundive/obligatory), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — predicative ‘to be done’
श्राद्धम्śrāddha rite
श्राद्धम्:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootश्राद्ध (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — nominative singular (subject of implied ‘is’)
यत्which
यत्:
Sambandha (Relative/सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formसर्वनाम, नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — relative pronoun; correlates with (tad) understood
नnot
न:
Negation (निषेध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootन (अव्यय)
Formनिषेधार्थक अव्यय (negation particle)
एकपिण्डताstate of being one piṇḍa (single-oblation unity)
एकपिण्डता:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootएक (प्रातिपदिक) + पिण्ड (प्रातिपदिक) + ता (तद्धित)
Formकर्मधारय/तत्पुरुष-समास (एकः पिण्डः) + ता-प्रत्यय (भाववाचक), स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — nominative singular
Speaker

Unknown (continuing narrator in Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya context)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Śrāddha-pakṣa setting: family in mourning white; priest prepares offerings labeled for pitāmaha and older ancestors; the recently deceased father is shown as a separate, waiting figure (preta-like liminality) outside the main pitṛ group, indicating ‘naika-piṇḍatā’.

Characters & Entities
Ś
Śrāddha-pakṣa
P
Pitāmaha (grandfather)
P
Piṇḍa
S
Sapiṇḍatā

FAQs

Even amid transitional rites after death, one must maintain ongoing duties to earlier ancestors, preserving continuity of offerings.

The immediate focus is ritual procedure during śrāddha-pakṣa; the surrounding narrative belongs to Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra-māhātmya in Nāgara Khaṇḍa.

If the father has died and śrāddha-pakṣa arrives before full piṇḍa-unity is established, perform śrāddha for the grandfather and other ancestors.

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