Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 7
पिता पितामहश्चैव तथैव प्रपितामहः । द्वादशाब्दानि तुष्यन्ति नात्र कार्या विचारणा
pitā pitāmahaścaiva tathaiva prapitāmahaḥ | dvādaśābdāni tuṣyanti nātra kāryā vicāraṇā
പിതാവും പിതാമഹനും പ്രപിതാമഹനും—ഈ മൂന്നുപേരും പന്ത്രണ്ടു വർഷം തൃപ്തരാകുന്നു; ഇതിൽ സംശയമോ വിചാരണമോ വേണ്ട।
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya (continued context)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) tīrtha (general)
Type: river
Listener: A king (addressed as rājendra in the immediate vicinity of the passage)
Scene: A devotee at a riverbank offers tilodaka and piṇḍa/tarpaṇa to three ancestral figures symbolically present; the river flows calmly, with ritual vessels and darbha grass in the foreground.
FAQs
Ancestral rites are framed as powerful acts of gratitude and continuity, bringing sustained contentment to the pitṛs.
The result is tied to the immediately preceding tīrtha-based piṇḍa rite in the Dadhiskanda/Madhuskanda passage of Revākhaṇḍa.
No new prescription; it states the duration of ancestral satisfaction produced by the preceding rite.