Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 6
ततो वार्धक्यमापन्नस्तथापि न शमं गतः । कस्यचित्त्वथ कालस्य पितृभिः प्रतिबोधितः । तं प्रसुप्तं समासाद्य नारकेयैः सुदुःखितैः
tato vārdhakyamāpannastathāpi na śamaṃ gataḥ | kasyacittvatha kālasya pitṛbhiḥ pratibodhitaḥ | taṃ prasuptaṃ samāsādya nārakeyaiḥ suduḥkhitaiḥ
随后他步入老年，却仍未得自制之寂静（śama）。过了一段时日，他被祖先唤醒——那些在地狱中受苦受罚者，痛楚难当，趁他沉睡之际前来相近。
Pulastya
Tirtha: Arbuda-kṣetra (narrative locus)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Night chamber scene: the king asleep; spectral, suffering pitṛs emerge with scorched bodies and pleading faces, surrounded by faint flames and smoke of naraka, shaking him awake.
FAQs
Unrestrained life ripens into suffering that can bind even one’s ancestors; awakening to dharma may come through the cry of the Pitṛs.
Not named in this verse; it sets the crisis that will be resolved through tīrtha-dharma in the chapter.
None explicitly here; the verse introduces the Pitṛ-driven admonition that typically leads to dāna/snāna remedies.