Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 155
एकत्रिंशद्गणा येषां पितॄणां प्रबला नृप । कृतं च तदिदं श्राद्धं तर्पयेत्तान्परान्पितॄन्
ekatriṃśadgaṇā yeṣāṃ pitṝṇāṃ prabalā nṛpa | kṛtaṃ ca tadidaṃ śrāddhaṃ tarpayettānparānpitṝn
Hỡi đại vương, các Pitṛ có ba mươi mốt đoàn chúng thật hùng mạnh. Lễ Śrāddha này, khi được cử hành, nên làm cho những bậc tổ tiên tối thượng ấy được no đủ, thỏa mãn.
Mahākāla
Listener: a king
Scene: A ritual scene where thirty-one pitṛ-gaṇas are symbolically represented as a vast assembly of ancestral lights; the performer offers piṇḍa and tarpaṇa, and the ‘para pitṛs’ receive with solemn power.
FAQs
Śrāddha is portrayed as a potent rite that reaches powerful ancestral collectives when done with correct intention and method.
No particular tīrtha is mentioned in this verse.
Perform Śrāddha so as to tarpayet (satiate) the parāḥ pitaraḥ, the higher ancestral orders.