Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 48
न पित्रोरधिकं किंचित्त्रिलोक्यां तनयस्य हि । गर्भधारणपोषाभ्यां पितुर्माता गरीयसी
na pitroradhikaṃ kiṃcittrilokyāṃ tanayasya hi | garbhadhāraṇapoṣābhyāṃ piturmātā garīyasī
بیٹے کے لیے تینوں لوکوں میں والدین سے بڑھ کر کچھ نہیں؛ اور حمل ٹھہرانے اور پرورش کرنے کے سبب ماں باپ سے بھی زیادہ گراں قدر، زیادہ قابلِ تعظیم ہے۔
Nārada (continued discourse)
Tirtha: Mātṛ-tīrtha (conceptual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Vaiśvānara and narrative audience
Scene: A tender tableau: the mother seated with gentle gravity, father beside; the son bows, acknowledging the mother’s greater burden of pregnancy and nurture; Nārada’s presence sanctifies the teaching.
FAQs
Parents are supreme objects of reverence, with special emphasis on the mother’s sacrifice in pregnancy and upbringing.
No physical site; the teaching frames parents—especially the mother—as spiritually ‘greater’ than worldly attainments.
No explicit ritual; it implicitly prescribes honoring and serving parents, especially one’s mother.