Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 5
गालव उवाच । अपुत्रस्य गतिर्नास्ति मृतः स्वर्गं न गच्छति । द्वादशानामपि तथा यद्येकोऽपि न विद्यते
gālava uvāca | aputrasya gatirnāsti mṛtaḥ svargaṃ na gacchati | dvādaśānāmapi tathā yadyeko'pi na vidyate
ಗಾಲವನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—ಪುತ್ರರಹಿತನಿಗೆ (ಧರ್ಮಾನುಸಾರ) ಗತಿ ಇಲ್ಲ; ಅವನು ಮೃತನಾದ ಮೇಲೆ ಸ್ವರ್ಗಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಹನ್ನೆರಡು ವಿಧದ ಪುತ್ರರಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದಾದರೂ ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೆ ಇದೇ ಫಲವೆಂದು ಹೇಳಲಾಗಿದೆ।
Gālava
Listener: Brāhmaṇas/Ṛṣis
Scene: Gālava speaks with firm compassion, raising a hand in instructive gesture; Vidura listens, visibly sobered by the pronouncement about svarga and gati.
FAQs
It reflects a traditional dharma view that lineage and the continuation of rites are crucial for posthumous welfare.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it is a doctrinal exchange embedded in the surrounding kṣetra-māhātmya narrative.
Implicitly, the necessity of having a son (in some recognized form) to sustain ancestral rites; no explicit ritual is described in this line.
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