Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 84

Devanagari script

इत्थं भवित्री ते मुक्तिः कैटभारातिदर्शनात् । भोगान्भुक्त्वा बहुविधान्वैकुंठ नगरे शुभे

Transliteration

itthaṃ bhavitrī te muktiḥ kaiṭabhārātidarśanāt | bhogānbhuktvā bahuvidhānvaikuṃṭha nagare śubhe

Translation

وهكذا تأتيك الخلاص برؤية كَيْطَبْهارا؛ وبعد التمتّع بأنواعٍ كثيرة من النعيم في مدينة فايكونثا المباركة، يتجلّى لك المصير السعيد.

Word by Word

• इत्थम्: thus, in this manner
• इत्थम्: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इत्थम् (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; प्रकारवाचक क्रियाविशेषण (adverb of manner: “thus”)

• भवित्री: will be (destined to be)
• भवित्री: Karta/Predicative (Subject-complement)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भवितृ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा (1st/Nominative); एकवचन; भविष्यत्कालवाचक (future-oriented: “will be”)

• ते: your
• ते: Sambandha (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th/Genitive); एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• मुक्तिः: liberation
• मुक्तिः: Karta (Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मुक्ति (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा (1st/Nominative); एकवचन

• कैटभ-अराति-दर्शनात्: from seeing the foe of Kaiṭabha (Viṣṇu)
• कैटभ-अराति-दर्शनात्: Hetu/Apādāna (Cause/Source)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कैटभ (प्रातिपदिक) + अराति (प्रातिपदिक) + दर्शन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग (दर्शन-नपुंसक); पञ्चमी (5th/Ablative); एकवचन; समासः—षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (कैटभस्य अरातिः = कैटभारातिः; तस्य दर्शनम्)

• भोगान्: enjoyments
• भोगान्: Karma (Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भोग (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative); बहुवचन

• भुक्त्वा: having enjoyed
• भुक्त्वा: Pūrvakāla-kriyā (Prior action)
• Type: Verb
• Root: भुज् (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund); “having enjoyed”

• बहुविधान्: of many kinds
• बहुविधान्: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival to Karma)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बहु (प्रातिपदिक) + विध (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative); बहुवचन; विशेषण (qualifying भोगान्); समासः—कर्मधारयः (बहवः विधाः = बहुविधाः)

• वैकुण्ठे: in Vaikuṇṭha
• वैकुण्ठे: Adhikaraṇa (Location)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वैकुण्ठ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (7th/Locative); एकवचन

• नगरे: in the city
• नगरे: Adhikaraṇa (Location)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नगर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (7th/Locative); एकवचन

• शुभे: auspicious
• शुभे: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival to Adhikaraṇa)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शुभ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (7th/Locative); एकवचन; विशेषण (qualifying नगरे)

Speaker

Unspecified (contextual narrator within Skanda’s Kāśī Māhātmya discourse)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kaiṭabhāra-darśana (Hari-darśana) within Kāśī narrative horizon

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Lopāmudrā (explicit in nearby verses)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A divine attendant proclaims to a brāhmaṇa that liberation will arise through the vision of Kaiṭabhāra; in the background, a luminous Vaikuṇṭha-city with celestial architecture suggests promised bliss before final release.

Characters & Entities

• Kaiṭabhāra
• Vaikuṇṭha

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Puranic dharma often frames liberation as arising from darśana: sacred vision is itself a transformative act that bears otherworldly merit.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The locus of Kaiṭabhāra-darśana within the Kāśī narrative setting (a sanctified darśana-point).

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Darśana (reverential viewing) of Kaiṭabhāra.