Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 44
प्रेरितोपि जनन्या स न याति पितुरंतिकम् । गृहकार्यांतरव्यग्रो दीक्षितो दीक्षितायिनीम्
preritopi jananyā sa na yāti pituraṃtikam | gṛhakāryāṃtaravyagro dīkṣito dīkṣitāyinīm
आईने प्रवृत्त केले तरी तो वडिलांच्या जवळ गेला नाही. घरकामांच्या इतर व्यापांत गुंतून तो दीक्षित गृहिणीला सतत त्रास देत राहिला.
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: Inside a traditional home near the ghāṭas: a mother pleading, the son turning away from an elderly father seated apart; the wife, marked as dīkṣitā (tilaka, rudrākṣa or vrata signs), appears distressed as the son agitates her amid household bustle.
FAQs
Neglecting one’s father and disturbing a dharmic household signals inner disorder; honoring elders is a pillar of dharma.
None is directly mentioned in this verse.
No explicit rite is prescribed; the terms dīkṣita/dīkṣitā hint at a household grounded in ritual discipline that he disrupts.