Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 99
यावत्संवत्सरं तेन एकेनापि तु सत्तमाः । तस्मिन्नपि च यः श्राद्धं युष्माकं न प्रदास्यति
yāvatsaṃvatsaraṃ tena ekenāpi tu sattamāḥ | tasminnapi ca yaḥ śrāddhaṃ yuṣmākaṃ na pradāsyati
«Ô vous, les plus excellents ! Même par ce seul rite, pour une année entière… et pourtant, celui qui ne vous offrira pas le śrāddha…»
Brahmā (continuing, leading into consequences)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pitṛs addressed as ‘sattamāḥ’ (excellent ones)
Scene: A contrast scene: on one side, a devotee performing śrāddha; on the other, a negligent person turning away; pitṛs appear satisfied above the first and faintly distressed above the second; a year-wheel motif indicates the long span affected.
FAQs
Even when dharma is made easy and effective, deliberate neglect of ancestral duty is still censured in Purāṇic ethics.
No particular tīrtha is mentioned in this verse; it introduces a moral warning about omission.
It reiterates the efficacy of even a single rite for a year, and transitions to the case of someone who still does not offer śrāddha.