Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 62

Devanagari script

आवर्जितास्ते रामेण पाद्यार्घ्यविष्टरादिभिः । स्तुतिं चकार विप्राणां दण्डवत्प्रणिपत्य च

Transliteration

āvarjitāste rāmeṇa pādyārghyaviṣṭarādibhiḥ | stutiṃ cakāra viprāṇāṃ daṇḍavatpraṇipatya ca

Translation

استقبلهم راما بالقرابين المأثورة: ماء لغسل القدمين، وأرغيا، ومقاعد وما شابه. ثم أثنى على البراهمة، وسجد سجدًا تامًّا كالعصا، وانحنى بخشوع كامل.

Word by Word

• आवर्जिताः: (were) welcomed/received
• आवर्जिताः: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ√वृज् (धातु)
• Form: कृदन्त (क्त-प्रत्यय, भूतकर्मणि/भूतकृत्), पुल्लिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; past passive participle used predicatively

• ते: they
• ते: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, पुल्लिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन

• रामेण: by Rama
• रामेण: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: राम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुल्लिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd), एकवचन; instrumental

• पाद्य-अर्घ्य-विष्टरा-आदिभिः: with pādya, arghya, seats, etc.
• पाद्य-अर्घ्य-विष्टरा-आदिभिः: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाद्य (प्रातिपदिक) + अर्घ्य (प्रातिपदिक) + विष्टरा (प्रातिपदिक) + आदि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: समास (द्वन्द्व-समाहार/इतरेतर-समुच्चय), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd), बहुवचन; ‘with (items) such as water for washing feet, arghya, seats, etc.’

• स्तुतिम्: praise
• स्तुतिम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्तुति (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन

• चकार: did/made
• चकार: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √कृ (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (परस्मैपद), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; perfect

• विप्राणाम्: of the Brahmins
• विप्राणाम्: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: विप्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुल्लिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), बहुवचन; genitive

• दण्डवत्: prostrate (like a staff)
• दण्डवत्: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: दण्डवत् (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय; क्रियाविशेषण (adverb) ‘like a staff/fully prostrate’

• प्रणिपत्य: having prostrated
• प्रणिपत्य: Purvakala (Prior action/पूर्वकाल)
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र√नम् (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (अव्ययकृदन्त/gerund), ‘having bowed down/prostrated’

• च: and
• च: Samuccaya (Conjunction/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)

Speaker

Narrator (contextual; exact speaker not specified in snippet)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Rāma receives eminent Brāhmaṇas with pādya and arghya, offers a seat, and performs a full daṇḍavat prostration; the atmosphere is formal, reverent, and ritual-pure.

Characters & Entities

• Rāma
• Vipras (Brāhmaṇas)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Sacred etiquette is dharma: honoring the holy with offerings, praise, and full humility purifies the householder and strengthens righteousness.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Dharmāraṇya forms the sacred backdrop; the verse focuses on the dharma of reception practiced within such holy terrain.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Offering pādya, arghya, and viṣṭara (seat), along with daṇḍavat-praṇāma—standard rites of atithi-satkāra.