Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 31, Shloka 45
Adhyaya 31 — Naimittika and Related Śrāddha Rites: Sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, Eligibility, Timing, and Procedure
निष्पादयेनमहाभाग ! पितॄणां प्रीणने रतः । अग्नौ कार्यमनुज्ञातः कुरुष्वेति ततो द्विजैः ॥
niṣpādayen mahābhāga! pitṝṇāṃ prīṇane rataḥ / agnau kāryam anujñātaḥ kuruṣveti tato dvijaiḥ
噫，贤贵之人！凡志在悦慰祖灵（Pitṛs）者，当如法圆满其仪。其后，既蒙许可，便告诸“再生者”（二次生）：「当于火中行应行之事。」
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FAQs
Ritual has stages and closure: one completes duties to ancestors, then proceeds to fire-offering only after ‘permission’—a model of orderly conduct and reverence.
Ācāra instruction supporting social-religious order; not a pancalakṣaṇa narrative unit.
Moving from Pitṛ offerings to Agni symbolizes transferring merit and intention from the subtle ancestral sphere into the transformative principle of fire—internalizing and sealing the rite.