Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 5
समागमो मुनिश्रेष्ठ दीनस्योत्कण्ठितस्य च । तस्मादुत्थाप्य तां तूर्णं प्रायश्चित्तविधिं ततः । तस्मादादिश मे क्षिप्रं येन शुद्धिः प्रजायते
samāgamo muniśreṣṭha dīnasyotkaṇṭhitasya ca | tasmādutthāpya tāṃ tūrṇaṃ prāyaścittavidhiṃ tataḥ | tasmādādiśa me kṣipraṃ yena śuddhiḥ prajāyate
O best of sages, for one who is miserable and longing, reunion alone is relief. Therefore restore her quickly, and then prescribe the rite of expiation (prāyaścitta). Hence instruct me at once by which purity may be attained.
Śatānanda (deduced)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A distressed petitioner addresses a venerable ṛṣi, hands folded, pleading for immediate instruction on expiation and purity; an ashram setting near a sacred waterbody implied by tīrtha-mahātmya ambience.
FAQs
Dharma is restored through prāyaścitta and śuddhi; longing must be guided into lawful purification rather than impulsive action.
The request for expiation occurs within the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra Māhātmya in the Nāgara Khaṇḍa.
The verse explicitly asks for a prāyaścitta-vidhi (expiation procedure) leading to śuddhi (purification), though the exact rite is not detailed in this line.
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