Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 8
माता मातामही चैव तथैवान्या प्रपूर्विका । पितामह्याश्च या माता सापि शोध्या सभर्तृका
mātā mātāmahī caiva tathaivānyā prapūrvikā | pitāmahyāśca yā mātā sāpi śodhyā sabhartṛkā
The mother, the maternal grandmother, and likewise an earlier ancestress; and the mother of the paternal grandmother—she too should be purified, together with her husband.
Skanda (deduced)
Scene: A ritual officiant enumerates foremothers—mother, maternal grandmother, and earlier ancestress—symbolically offering purification to paired ancestral figures (wife with husband) through mantra and gesture.
FAQs
Ritual purity is treated as a holistic family-line responsibility, not limited to a single ancestor.
No named tīrtha is present in this verse.
Purify/verify specified female ancestors, including the paternal grandmother’s mother, and include the husband where relevant.
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