Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 61
त्वदन्वये विना नाम्ना त्वदीयेन विमोहिताः । ये पितॄंस्तर्पयिष्यंति तेषां व्यर्थं भविष्यति
tvadanvaye vinā nāmnā tvadīyena vimohitāḥ | ye pitṝṃstarpayiṣyaṃti teṣāṃ vyarthaṃ bhaviṣyati
त्वदन्वये विना नाम्ना त्वदीयेन विमोहिताः । ये पितॄंस्तर्पयिष्यन्ति तेषां व्यर्थं भविष्यति ॥
Śiva (deduced)
Type: ghat
Scene: A stern admonition scene: an elder/ṛṣi warns descendants; in parallel, a ritual performer is shown offering water but a symbolic ‘broken thread’ or fading ancestral figure indicates fruitlessness due to omitted name.
FAQs
Ritual efficacy depends on right remembrance and proper invocation; omission of the intended divine name undermines the rite.
The immediate focus is ritual correctness within a tīrthamāhātmya discourse; no single tīrtha is named in this verse.
During tarpaṇa, one must not omit the required name-invocation indicated by the passage.
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