Chapter 21 — The Dead Child Became Alive

Literal. Continues from Chapter 20. The mother refuses to give the dead child for funeral, ties his body to her back, and dashes her head on Shri Guru's padukas (sacred footprints) at Audumbar. Brahmins demand the body for cremation; she refuses. After midnight, she falls drowsy. In her dream a figure with vibhuti, rudraksha, trishul, tiger-skin (Shiva-form) appears, applies bhasma to the boy's forehead, opens his mouth and blows air into it. The boy revives. The community is astonished.

Symbolic. Mouth-to-mouth respiration with vibhuti as an explicit narrative element — possibly the earliest depiction in the Datta tradition of CPR-shaped interventional revival.