Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 71
तस्माद्वह्निमुखे भूयः स जुहोति हविर्द्विज । ततः संप्राप्स्यति स्वर्गं त्वत्प्रसादादसंशयम्
tasmādvahnimukhe bhūyaḥ sa juhoti havirdvija | tataḥ saṃprāpsyati svargaṃ tvatprasādādasaṃśayam
„Darum, o Zweimalgeborener, soll er erneut die Opfergabe in den Mund des Feuers darbringen. Dann wird er durch deine Gnade den Himmel erlangen — ohne Zweifel.“
Brahmā (addressing Viśvāmitra as dvija/brahman)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvija (addressed)
Scene: A dvija instructs the yajamāna to offer again into the fire; the flame rises as if opening a path upward, symbolizing svarga.
FAQs
It reinforces that the ordained path to heavenly merit runs through proper offerings to Agni, supported by the blessing of the spiritual authority.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it remains within the broader tīrtha-narrative context.
Repeated oblations into the sacrificial fire (Agni) as the correct means toward svarga.