Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 46
क्षुत्परीतो निराहारो वसाम्यत्र महावने । इदानीमागतं दृष्ट्वा भवंतं जग्धुमुत्सुकः । त्वद्देहस्पर्शमात्रेण जाता पूर्वभवस्मृतिः
kṣutparīto nirāhāro vasāmyatra mahāvane | idānīmāgataṃ dṛṣṭvā bhavaṃtaṃ jagdhumutsukaḥ | tvaddehasparśamātreṇa jātā pūrvabhavasmṛtiḥ
भूख से पीड़ित और निराहार मैं इस महान वन में रहता हूँ। अभी आपको आया देख मैं आपको खाने को उत्सुक हुआ; पर आपके शरीर के मात्र स्पर्श से मेरे पूर्व-जन्मों की स्मृति जाग उठी।
Unspecified in excerpt (the brahmarākṣasa speaking to a traveler/saintly person)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A starving brahmarākṣasa in a dense forest lunges toward a traveler/saint; at the moment of touch, the attacker’s face softens as a halo-like ‘memory awakening’ radiates outward.
FAQs
Contact with the virtuous can awaken past-life awareness and turn violent impulse into repentance and self-knowledge.
No named tīrtha appears; the setting is a ‘great forest’ and the emphasis is on transformative contact.
No formal rite is taught; the implied teaching is the sanctifying power of association with the righteous.