Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 45
तदा स्वकीयजीवेन त्वं योजयितुमर्हसि । मृतेषु तेषु विप्रेषु न जीवे निश्चयो मृतः
tadā svakīyajīvena tvaṃ yojayitumarhasi | mṛteṣu teṣu vipreṣu na jīve niścayo mṛtaḥ
तेव्हा तू आपल्या स्वप्राणशक्तीने त्यांना पुन्हा जीवंत करणे योग्य आहेस। ते ब्राह्मण बालक मेले तर माझे जगणे निश्चित नाही—मीही मरेन।
Baṭu (continuing speech to the guru/elder)
Tirtha: Bhārabhūteśvara tīrtha (implied in immediate narrative)
Type: tirtha
Listener: Primary interlocutor not specified in given excerpt
Scene: A distraught speaker pleads before Maheśvara: ‘restore them with your own life; if they die, I will die.’ The setting hints at a riverbank tīrtha with anxious attendants and submerged youths.
FAQs
Causing harm to the innocent creates a binding moral debt; restoration and atonement become obligatory.
The broader episode is set on the Revā (Narmadā) and leads to the establishment/glory of Bhārabhūteśvara.
No explicit rite; the verse stresses restitution (restoring life) as moral necessity.