Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 55
सतां गेहे किल प्राप्ता भवतां चापकारिणी । सामेनातिथिपूजायां शिष्टे च गृहमागते
satāṃ gehe kila prāptā bhavatāṃ cāpakāriṇī | sāmenātithipūjāyāṃ śiṣṭe ca gṛhamāgate
സജ്ജന്മാരുടെ ഗൃഹത്തിൽ എത്തിയിട്ടും ഞാൻ നിങ്ങളോടു അപകാരം ചെയ്തവളായി. നിങ്ങൾ സൗമ്യമായി അതിഥിപൂജ നടത്തി, ശിഷ്ടഗൃഹസ്ഥരായിട്ടും ഞാൻ തെറ്റായ പ്രതിഫലം നൽകി.
Unspecified woman (contextual speaker within Revā Khaṇḍa narrative)
Tirtha: Sat-gṛha/āśrama as ‘living tīrtha’ (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Śāṇḍilī speaks with folded hands or lowered posture, acknowledging fault before cultured household-sages who had honored her as a guest; atmosphere of moral seriousness rather than spectacle.
FAQs
One must honor and protect the guest; repaying kindness with harm is condemned in dharma.
The setting is the Revā (Narmadā) region in the Revā Khaṇḍa, though this verse itself focuses on household dharma rather than a single tīrtha.
Atithi-pūjā—receiving and honoring a guest with respectful hospitality.