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# Skandapurana 16.270.41

Skandapurāṇa 16.270.41

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.270.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.270.41)

kṛṣṇapakṣe caturdaśyāṃ snānaṃ ca vihitaṃ sadā ..  
piṇyākeṃgudakenāpi piṃḍaṃ tatra dadāti yaḥ ..  
pitṝṇāmakṣayaṃ bhūyātpitṛlokaṃ sa gacchati .. 41 ..

> A ritual ablution on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight is always prescribed there; / whoever offers a funeral cake there, even with oil-cake or inguda-oil, / for him it will be inexhaustible for the ancestors, and he goes to the world of the ancestors.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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