Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 67

Devanagari script

प्रयाणं कुर्वते यस्य प्राणा मे मुक्तिमंडपे । समामनुप्रविष्टोत्र तिष्ठेद्यावदहं खलु

Transliteration

prayāṇaṃ kurvate yasya prāṇā me muktimaṃḍape | samāmanupraviṣṭotra tiṣṭhedyāvadahaṃ khalu

Translation

مَن تخرج أنفاسُه الحيّة في مُكتي مَنْدَبا خاصّتي، أدخلُ أنا نفسي هناك مع تلك الأنفاس، وأمكثُ مع تلك الروح ما دمتُ حقًّا أمكث.

Word by Word

• prayāṇam: departure (death)
• prayāṇam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prayāṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/कर्म), एकवचन

• kurvate: perform
• kurvate: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √kṛ (धाातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), आत्मनेपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन; (they) do/perform

• yasya: of whom/whose
• yasya: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), एकवचन; सम्बन्धसूचक (relative)

• prāṇāḥ: life-breaths
• prāṇāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prāṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/कर्ता), बहुवचन

• me: my
• me: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• mukti-maṇḍape: in the Mukti pavilion
• mukti-maṇḍape: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mukti (प्रातिपदिक) + maṇḍapa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/अधिकरण), एकवचन; समासः—षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष

• samām: for a year
• samām: Kāla-adhikarana (Time/काल)
• Type: Noun
• Root: samā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/काल-अत्यन्तसंयोग), एकवचन; कालपरिमाण (duration)

• anupraviṣṭaḥ: having entered (after)
• anupraviṣṭaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: anu + pra + √viś (धाातु) + kta
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त भूतकृदन्त (having entered/followed in)

• atra: here
• atra: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: atra (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; देशवाचक क्रियाविशेषण (here)

• tiṣṭhet: should remain
• tiṣṭhet: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √sthā (धाातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन

• yāvat: as long as
• yāvat: Sambandha (Limiter/अवच्छेद)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yāvat (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; अवच्छेदक (limitative) = as long as/until

• aham: I
• aham: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: प्रथमा (1st/कर्ता), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• khalu: indeed
• khalu: Sambandha (Particle/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: khalu (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निपात (emphasis/assurance)

Speaker

Skanda

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Mukti Maṇḍapa (Kāśī)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Traditional interlocutor (often Pārvatī)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A dying devotee in Mukti Maṇḍapa, surrounded by lamps and quiet attendants; subtle, compassionate manifestation of Śiva entering with the departing prāṇas—shown as a luminous presence guiding a small soul-light upward, remaining beside it.

Characters & Entities

• Kāśī (Vārāṇasī)
• Mukti Maṇḍapa
• Śiva (implied by 'I' in Kāśī context)
• Prāṇa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Kāśī is portrayed as a direct sphere of divine grace, where the Lord personally accompanies the departing soul toward liberation.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The Mukti Maṇḍapa in Kāśī, a liberation-conferring sacred precinct.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Not a ritual but an eschatological teaching: the supreme benefit of departing (dying) within the Mukti Maṇḍapa.