Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 40

Devanagari script

जगत्सृष्टिविनाशानां कारणाय नमोनमः । एवं स्तुतो महादेवः पूर्वं सृष्टया मयानघ

Transliteration

jagatsṛṣṭivināśānāṃ kāraṇāya namonamaḥ | evaṃ stuto mahādevaḥ pūrvaṃ sṛṣṭayā mayānagha

Translation

سلامٌ وسجودٌ مرارًا وتكرارًا لعلّة خلق العالم وفنائه. هكذا مدحتُ مَهَادِيفَا من قبل، يا من لا إثمَ له، في زمن الخلق.

Word by Word

• जगत्सृष्टिविनाशानाम्: of the creation and destruction of the world
• जगत्सृष्टिविनाशानाम्: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: जगत्सृष्टिविनाश (प्रातिपदिक; जगत् + सृष्टि + विनाश)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग-समाहारार्थे, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), बहुवचन; बहुपद-तत्पुरुष (जगतः सृष्टिः विनाशः च)

• कारणाय: to the cause
• कारणाय: Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कारण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी, एकवचन

• नमः: salutation
• नमः: Bhava (Exclamation/भाव)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नमस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• नमः: salutation (again)
• नमः: Bhava (Exclamation/भाव)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नमस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; पुनरुक्ति

• एवम्: thus
• एवम्: Sambandha (Adverbial/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम् (अव्यय)
• Form: क्रियाविशेषण (adverb)

• स्तुतः: praised
• स्तुतः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्तु (धातु) + त (कृत् प्रत्यय)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (past passive participle/क्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; कर्मणि-भावः—‘स्तुतः’ = praised

• महादेवः: Mahādeva
• महादेवः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: महादेव (प्रातिपदिक; महा + देव)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• पूर्वम्: formerly / earlier
• पूर्वम्: Sambandha (Temporal/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पूर्वम् (अव्यय/नपुंसक-रूप)
• Form: कालवाचक-अव्यय (temporal adverb)

• सृष्टया: by (my) creation / by creation
• सृष्टया: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सृष्टि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), एकवचन; साधन/हेतु-भावे

• मया: by me
• मया: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अस्मद्-प्रयोगः, तृतीया (Instrumental), एकवचन

• अनघ: O sinless one
• अनघ: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनघ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन; विशेषण-रूपेण संबोधन

Speaker

Unnamed devotee/narrator (within Mārkaṇḍeya’s narration context)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Revā-kṣetra (contextual)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: ‘anagha’ addressed explicitly here

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Cosmic panorama: Śiva as the still center while worlds emerge and dissolve around him; overlay with a small foreground of Revā riverbank where the narrator offers stuti, linking cosmic and local.

Characters & Entities

• Mahādeva

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Recognize Śiva as the ultimate cause behind cosmic cycles; praise (stuti) aligns the mind with that truth.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

No single tirtha is named in this verse; it supports the broader Revā Khaṇḍa sacred landscape by grounding it in Śiva’s cosmic sovereignty.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No explicit ritual is prescribed; the act emphasized is stuti—devotional praise and repeated salutations.