Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 45
तदा स्वकीयजीवेन त्वं योजयितुमर्हसि । मृतेषु तेषु विप्रेषु न जीवे निश्चयो मृतः
tadā svakīyajīvena tvaṃ yojayitumarhasi | mṛteṣu teṣu vipreṣu na jīve niścayo mṛtaḥ
إذن عليك أن تعيد إليهم الحياة بحياتك أنت. إذا مات هؤلاء الفتيان البراهمة، فأنا على يقين أنني لن أستمر في العيش، بل سأموت.
Baṭu (continuing speech to the guru/elder)
Tirtha: Bhārabhūteśvara tīrtha (implied in immediate narrative)
Type: tirtha
Listener: Primary interlocutor not specified in given excerpt
Scene: A distraught speaker pleads before Maheśvara: ‘restore them with your own life; if they die, I will die.’ The setting hints at a riverbank tīrtha with anxious attendants and submerged youths.
FAQs
Causing harm to the innocent creates a binding moral debt; restoration and atonement become obligatory.
The broader episode is set on the Revā (Narmadā) and leads to the establishment/glory of Bhārabhūteśvara.
No explicit rite; the verse stresses restitution (restoring life) as moral necessity.