Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 60
विपुलं शिष्यमादिश्य गृह एकोऽत्र आगतः । सोऽहं स्नात्वात्र संतर्प्य पितॄञ्छ्रद्धापरायणः
vipulaṃ śiṣyamādiśya gṛha eko'tra āgataḥ | so'haṃ snātvātra saṃtarpya pitṝñchraddhāparāyaṇaḥ
शिष्य विपुल को आदेश देकर मैं अकेला अपने गृह में यहाँ आया। यहाँ स्नान करके और पितरों को श्रद्धापूर्वक तर्पण देकर मैं श्राद्ध-परायण बना रहता हूँ।
A householder (gṛhastha) narrator within Sūta’s discourse (deduced, Māheśvarakhaṇḍa context)
Type: ghat
Scene: A disciplined elder returns alone after instructing his disciple Vipula; he bathes at a quiet water-edge, then offers tarpaṇa with kuśa grass and water, facing south, with a calm, devotional expression.
FAQs
Householder dharma is upheld through purity (snāna) and gratitude to ancestors (pitṛ-tarpaṇa) performed with śraddhā.
A local sacred bathing-spot is implied by “having bathed here,” but the snippet does not name the tīrtha explicitly.
Snāna (ritual bathing) followed by pitṛ-tarpaṇa/śraddhā—satisfying the ancestors with offerings.