Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 43
पुत्रे जाते जातके वान्नाशने मुंडनेऽपि वा । लक्षहोमे कोटिहोमे तथा यज्ञक्रियासु च
putre jāte jātake vānnāśane muṃḍane'pi vā | lakṣahome koṭihome tathā yajñakriyāsu ca
En el nacimiento de un hijo, en el rito de jātakarma, en la primera toma de alimento y también en la tonsura; en la ofrenda de cien mil oblaciones, en la ofrenda de un crore, y asimismo en los ritos del yajña—
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narration within Dharmāraṇyakhaṇḍa; specific speaker not explicit in the snippet)
Tirtha: Dharmāraṇya (implied)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A sequence tableau: newborn rite, first feeding, tonsure ceremony, and a grand homa-kuṇḍa with priests offering oblations—each set within a temple courtyard.
FAQs
Life-cycle rites and yajñas are to be performed with dharmic care, treating major transitions and offerings as sacred duties.
Dharmāraṇya, where such saṁskāras and homas are contextually being discussed.
It enumerates key saṁskāras (birth-rite, first feeding, tonsure) and major homas (lakṣa-homa, koṭi-homa) as contexts for the stated religious rule in the surrounding passage.