Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 32
यः श्राद्धं नागरं मुक्त्वा ह्यन्यस्मै संप्रदास्यति । विमुखास्तस्य यास्यंति पितरो विबुधैः सह
yaḥ śrāddhaṃ nāgaraṃ muktvā hyanyasmai saṃpradāsyati | vimukhāstasya yāsyaṃti pitaro vibudhaiḥ saha
جو شخص ناگر پاتر کو چھوڑ کر کسی اور کو شرادھ دے، اس کے پِتر دیوتاؤں کے ساتھ اس سے منہ موڑ کر رخصت ہو جاتے ہیں۔
Unspecified (same authority figure; śrāddha injunction)
Listener: Dvijottamas / ritual performers in Nāgara context
Scene: A householder at a śrāddha altar hesitates between two recipients; in the subtle realm, pitṛs turn their faces away and withdraw, while devas recede—signaling broken ritual alignment.
FAQs
Śrāddha must be performed with fidelity to prescribed recipients and dharmic order; otherwise the pitṛs withdraw their grace.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it is a dharma rule embedded in the tīrtha-māhātmya discourse.
A śrāddha injunction: do not bypass the rightful (Nāgara) recipient; improper redirection is said to negate ancestral satisfaction.