Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 42
किं वा ते बहुनोक्तेन भूयो भूयश्च पुत्रक । आनृण्यं जायते यद्वत्पितॄणां तत्तथा शृणु
kiṃ vā te bahunoktena bhūyo bhūyaśca putraka | ānṛṇyaṃ jāyate yadvatpitṝṇāṃ tattathā śṛṇu
いったい何度も多くを語る必要がありましょう、愛しい我が子よ。では聞きなさい、祖霊（ピトリ）への負い目（負債）から解き放たれる道を。
Unspecified in snippet (likely the same mother/elder instructing the son)
Scene: An elder (mother) instructs the son: ‘hear how one becomes free of ancestral debt’; symbolic backdrop shows pitṛs receiving water offerings, with a ledger-like motif of ‘debt’ being erased.
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A key dharmic goal is discharging one’s obligation to the ancestors (pitṛ-ṛṇa) through proper conduct and prescribed duties.
Not specified in the verse; it introduces a teaching often connected with tīrtha practices but does not name a location.
The verse signals instruction about pitṛ-related discharge of debt; specific rites (e.g., śrāddha/tarpaṇa) are not explicitly named here.
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