Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 8
माता मातामही चैव तथैवान्या प्रपूर्विका । पितामह्याश्च या माता सापि शोध्या सभर्तृका
mātā mātāmahī caiva tathaivānyā prapūrvikā | pitāmahyāśca yā mātā sāpi śodhyā sabhartṛkā
ماں، نانی، اور اسی طرح اس سے پہلے کی بزرگ خاتون بھی؛ اور دادی کی ماں—وہ بھی اپنے شوہر سمیت پاک کی جائے۔
Skanda (deduced)
Scene: A ritual officiant enumerates foremothers—mother, maternal grandmother, and earlier ancestress—symbolically offering purification to paired ancestral figures (wife with husband) through mantra and gesture.
FAQs
Ritual purity is treated as a holistic family-line responsibility, not limited to a single ancestor.
No named tīrtha is present in this verse.
Purify/verify specified female ancestors, including the paternal grandmother’s mother, and include the husband where relevant.