Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 2
अग्निप्रवेशश्च जलेऽथवा मृत्युरनाशके । अनिवर्तिका गतिस्तस्य यथा मे शङ्करोऽब्रवीत्
agnipraveśaśca jale'thavā mṛtyuranāśake | anivartikā gatistasya yathā me śaṅkaro'bravīt
অগ্নিতে প্রবেশ হোক, বা জলে, কিংবা অবিনাশী স্থানে মৃত্যু হোক— তার গতি আর প্রত্যাবর্তনশীল থাকে না; যেমন শংকর আমাকে বলেছিলেন।
Unspecified in the snippet (contextually within Revā Khaṇḍa narration; likely a narrator relaying Śiva’s statement)
Tirtha: Narmadeśvara / Revā-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahīpāla (king)
Scene: Mārkaṇḍeya recounts Śaṅkara’s words; symbolic vignettes show a devotee meeting death by fire, by water, and by natural causes within a radiant kṣetra boundary, with a luminous path upward indicating ‘anivartikā gati’.
FAQs
Contact with the ‘undestructible’ sacred sphere yields an irreversible spiritual trajectory—pointing toward liberation and non-return.
The verse points to a sanctified ‘anāśaka’ locus within the Revā Khaṇḍa setting (Narmadā/Revā sacred landscape), though the exact named tīrtha is not stated in this single line.
No explicit ritual is prescribed here; it emphasizes the metaphysical consequence (anivartikā gati) associated with the sacred context.
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