Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 11
एकविंशतिमे प्राप्ते ततश्च पितृतर्पणे । अशरीराऽभवद्वाणी खस्था पितृसमुद्भवा
ekaviṃśatime prāpte tataśca pitṛtarpaṇe | aśarīrā'bhavadvāṇī khasthā pitṛsamudbhavā
Als das einundzwanzigste Mal gekommen war und er den Pitṛs die Tarpaṇa‑Spende darbrachte, erhob sich aus dem Himmel eine körperlose Stimme—aus den Ahnengeistern hervorgegangen.
Narrator (contextual third-person narration within the Sūta-led frame)
Type: ghat
Scene: On the twenty-first day of tarpaṇa, the worshipper pauses mid-offering as a luminous voice descends from the sky; the air shimmers, and ancestral presences are felt above the river.
FAQs
Sincere Pitṛ-tarpaṇa invokes ancestral grace; the unseen realm responds to dharmic ritual performed with steadiness.
The passage leads into the glorification and naming of Rāmahrada, a tīrtha formed through Pitṛ-tarpaṇa.
Pitṛ-tarpaṇa (libations to ancestors), presented as the immediate ritual context that triggers the ancestral revelation.