Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 46
कृत्वा वायुप्रदानं च गमितश्चेतनां प्रति । स प्राप्य चेतनां कृच्छ्रात्तत्तोयात्तानथाब्रवीत्
kṛtvā vāyupradānaṃ ca gamitaścetanāṃ prati | sa prāpya cetanāṃ kṛcchrāttattoyāttānathābravīt
പ്രാണപ്രദാനകർമ്മം ചെയ്ത് അവനെ ബോധത്തിലേക്ക് കൊണ്ടുവന്നു. അവൻ വലിയ പ്രയാസത്തോടെ ബോധം പ്രാപിച്ച്, ആ ജലത്തിനുള്ളിൽ നിന്നുതന്നെ അവരോട് പറഞ്ഞു।
Narrator (contextual third-person narration within Sūta’s discourse)
Scene: Helpers perform a life-restoring act; the man, partly in water, gasps back to awareness and speaks weakly, water rippling around him.
FAQs
Even amid injustice and suffering, the narrative turns toward restoration and truthful testimony—key themes in Purāṇic dharma.
The broader frame is the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya (Puṣpāditya Māhātmya context).
A life-restoring act described as vāyupradāna—revival through the ‘giving of breath/air’—is referenced narratively.