Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 32
प्रायश्चित्तं भवानेव लोकसंग्रहणाय तु । कुरुष्व भगवन्राम नान्येन प्रेरितः कुरु । इत्युक्तो भगवान्रामस्तानुवाच मुनीन्प्रति
prāyaścittaṃ bhavāneva lokasaṃgrahaṇāya tu | kuruṣva bhagavanrāma nānyena preritaḥ kuru | ityukto bhagavānrāmastānuvāca munīnprati
«Ô Bhagavān Rāma, c’est Toi-même qui dois accomplir le prāyaścitta, pour le bien et l’édification du monde. Fais-le sans l’impulsion d’autrui.» Ainsi interpellé, le bienheureux Rāma répondit aux sages.
Munis (first two pādas), then Narrator (last pāda)
Tirtha: Setukṣetra / Setubandha
Type: kshetra
Scene: Sages exhort Rāma: ‘You yourself should do the atonement for loka-saṅgraha, unprompted.’ Rāma listens with humility; the assembly is solemn yet devotional.
FAQs
Leaders must practice visible self-correction; prāyaścitta is undertaken not only personally but to uphold social and spiritual order (lokasaṁgraha).
Setukhaṇḍa’s sacred setting underlies the teaching, but the verse highlights exemplary dharma rather than a named tīrtha.
The prescription is to undertake prāyaścitta voluntarily for lokasaṁgraha; details are to be determined in the subsequent dialogue.