Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 44
ततः स क्षुत्परीतांगः पिता तस्य महीपतेः । स्वप्ने प्रोवाच तं पुत्रमतीव मलिनांबरः
tataḥ sa kṣutparītāṃgaḥ pitā tasya mahīpateḥ | svapne provāca taṃ putramatīva malināṃbaraḥ
Alors le père de ce roi—le corps accablé par la faim, les vêtements extrêmement souillés—parla à son fils dans un songe.
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa addressing sages)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Night scene: the king asleep; in the dream-space his father appears emaciated, hungry, in soiled garments, speaking urgently—half-lit by a dim lamp, with a liminal, otherworldly aura.
FAQs
Neglect (or inability) to sustain ancestors through proper offerings is depicted as causing suffering even beyond death, urging timely pitṛ rites.
Not specified in this verse; the tīrtha setting is implicit within the chapter’s Māhātmya framework.
Implied: the need for offerings to ancestors; the explicit request appears in the next verse.