Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 156

Devanagari script

ततो जघान भूयोऽपि दानवान्सा रुषान्विता । हतशेषाश्च ये दैत्या निर्भिद्य धरणीतलम्

Transliteration

tato jaghāna bhūyo'pi dānavānsā ruṣānvitā | hataśeṣāśca ye daityā nirbhidya dharaṇītalam

Translation

ثم وقد امتلأت غضبًا عادت فضربت الدانافا وأسقطتهم. وأما الدايتيون الباقون—مَن نجا بعد المذبحة—فشقّوا وجه الأرض وفرّوا إلى باطنها.

Word by Word

• tataḥ: then, thereafter
• tataḥ: Adhikarana (Context/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatas (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय (indeclinable), काल/अनुक्रमवाचक (temporal/sequential adverb)

• jaghāna: (she) slew, struck down
• jaghāna: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: han (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (singular)

• bhūyaḥ: again, once more
• bhūyaḥ: Kriya-vishesana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: bhūyas (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय (indeclinable), पुनरर्थक क्रियाविशेषण (adverb of repetition)

• api: also, even
• api: Sambandha (Particle/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: api (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (indeclinable), निपात (particle), समुच्चय/अपि-भाव (also/even)

• dānavān: the Dānavas (demons)
• dānavān: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dānava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), द्वितीया (accusative/कर्म), बहुवचन (plural)

• sā: she
• sā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग (feminine), प्रथमा (nominative/कर्ता), एकवचन (singular)

• ruṣā-anvitā: endowed with anger, enraged
• ruṣā-anvitā: Karta (Subject-qualifier/कर्तृविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ruṣā (प्रातिपदिक) + anvita (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक, √i/anu-√i ‘to be endowed’)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (instrumental/association sense: ‘with anger’), स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; कृदन्त विशेषण (past participial adjective)

• hata-śeṣāḥ: those remaining (survivors) after being slain
• hata-śeṣāḥ: Karta (Subject-qualifier/कर्तृविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: hata (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक, √han) + śeṣa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: कर्मधारय-समास (‘remaining after being slain’), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, समुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)

• ye: who, those who
• ye: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; सम्बन्धबोधक (relative pronoun)

• daityāḥ: the Daityas (demons)
• daityāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: daitya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• nirbhidya: having pierced/broken through
• nirbhidya: Kriya-vishesana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: nir-√bhid (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund), अव्ययभाव (indeclinable), पूर्वक्रिया (prior action)

• dharaṇī-talam: the surface of the earth, ground
• dharaṇī-talam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dharaṇī (प्रातिपदिक) + tala (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष: ‘of the earth’), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

Speaker

Narrator (Purāṇic narrator; likely Sūta-style narration within Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Arbuda-kṣetra (contextual)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Kingly audience (contextual)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Devī, wrathful, continues striking; scattered daityas crack the ground and dive into fissures, disappearing into darkness beneath the earth while dust and debris erupt upward.

Characters & Entities

• Sureśvarī (Devī)
• Dānavas
• Daityas

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

When dharma is defended by the Divine, even entrenched forces of chaos are driven to retreat.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Arbuda/Varaparvata, presented as a stage of divine intervention that sanctifies the landscape.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None explicitly; the verse contributes to the site’s Mahātmya through sacred history.