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
Oh el mejor de los sabios, para el desdichado y el que anhela, el reencuentro es el único alivio. Por ello, restáurala pronto; y después prescribe el rito de expiación (prāyaścitta). Así pues, instrúyeme de inmediato en el medio por el cual nace la pureza.
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.