Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 16

Devanagari script

तद्गात्रलग्नसितभस्मकणानुविद्धः सद्यो विधूतघनपापतमःस्वभावः । संप्राप्तपूर्वभव संस्मृतिरुग्रकार्यस्तत्पादपद्मयुगले प्रणतो बभाषे

Transliteration

tadgātralagnasitabhasmakaṇānuviddhaḥ sadyo vidhūtaghanapāpatamaḥsvabhāvaḥ | saṃprāptapūrvabhava saṃsmṛtirugrakāryastatpādapadmayugale praṇato babhāṣe

Translation

সেই যোগীৰ দেহত লাগি থকা শুভ্ৰ ভস্মকণাৰে ছিটাই পৰাত, ঘন পাপৰ অন্ধকাৰত আচ্ছন্ন তাৰ স্বভাৱ তৎক্ষণাৎ কঁপি উঠি দূৰ হ’ল। পূৰ্বজন্মৰ স্মৃতি আৰু নিজৰ ভয়ংকৰ কৰ্ম স্মৰণ কৰি, সি পদ্মচৰণযুগলত প্ৰণাম কৰি ক’বলৈ ধৰিলে।

Word by Word

• तत्: of him/that
• तत्: Sambandha (Genitive in compound/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; षष्ठी एकवचन (Neuter; Genitive; Singular) (in compound: ‘of him/that’)

• गात्र: body
• गात्र: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: gātra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound)

• लग्न: clinging
• लग्न: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √lag (लग्) (धातु)
• Form: क्त (past passive participle) ‘लग्न’ (attached/clinging); प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound)

• सित: white
• सित: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sita (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound); ‘white’

• भस्म: ash
• भस्म: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhasma (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound)

• कण: particle
• कण: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kaṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound)

• अनुविद्धः: covered (as if pierced) with
• अनुविद्धः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: anu-√vyadh (व्यध्) (धातु)
• Form: क्त (past passive participle); पुंलिङ्ग प्रथमा एकवचन (Masculine; Nominative; Singular); उपसर्गः अनु- (pierced/shot through; here: sprinkled/covered)

• तद्गात्रलग्नसितभस्मकणानुविद्धः: whose body was covered with white ash-particles clinging to it
• तद्गात्रलग्नसितभस्मकणानुविद्धः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: tad + gātra + lagna + sita + bhasma + kaṇa + anuviddha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा एकवचन (Masculine; Nominative; Singular); बहुपद-तत्पुरुषसमासः (determinative compound)

• सद्यः: immediately
• सद्यः: Kriya-visheṣaṇa (Adverb/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: sadyaḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; कालार्थे (indeclinable; immediately)

• विधूत: removed
• विधूत: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vi-√dhū (धू) (धातु)
• Form: क्त (past passive participle) ‘shaken off/removed’; प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound)

• घन: dense, great
• घन: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ghana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound); ‘dense, great’

• पाप: sin
• पाप: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāpa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound)

• तमः: darkness
• तमः: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tamas (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound)

• स्वभावः: nature
• स्वभावः: Karta (Apposition/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: svabhāva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा एकवचन (Masculine; Nominative; Singular)

• विधूतघनपापतमःस्वभावः: whose nature had cast off the dense darkness of sin
• विधूतघनपापतमःस्वभावः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vidhūta + ghana + pāpa + tamas + svabhāva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा एकवचन (Masculine; Nominative; Singular); बहुव्रीहिः ‘यस्य स्वभावः घनपापतमः विधूतम्’

• संप्राप्त: attained
• संप्राप्त: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sam-√prāp (प्राप्) (धातु)
• Form: क्त (past passive participle) ‘obtained/reached’; प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound)

• पूर्व: former
• पूर्व: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: pūrva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound); ‘former’

• भव: birth, existence
• भव: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound); ‘existence/birth’

• संस्मृतिः: recollection
• संस्मृतिः: Karta (Apposition/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃsmṛti (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा एकवचन (Feminine; Nominative; Singular)

• उग्र: terrible
• उग्र: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ugra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound); ‘terrible’

• कार्यः: deeds (to be done)
• कार्यः: Karta (Apposition/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kārya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा एकवचन (Masculine; Nominative; Singular); ‘to be done/fit to be done’ (here: deeds)

• संप्राप्तपूर्वभवसंस्मृतिः: one who had regained recollection of a former birth
• संप्राप्तपूर्वभवसंस्मृतिः: Karta (Apposition/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃprāpta + pūrva + bhava + saṃsmṛti (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा एकवचन (Feminine; Nominative; Singular); तत्पुरुषः ‘पूर्वभवस्य संस्मृतिः संप्राप्ता’

• उग्रकार्यः: one whose deeds were terrible
• उग्रकार्यः: Karta (Apposition/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ugra + kārya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा एकवचन (Masculine; Nominative; Singular); कर्मधारयः ‘उग्रं कार्यं यस्य’

• तत्: of him/that
• तत्: Sambandha (Genitive in compound/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; षष्ठी एकवचन (Neuter; Genitive; Singular) (in compound: ‘of him/that’)

• पाद: foot
• पाद: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāda (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound)

• पद्म: lotus
• पद्म: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: padma (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; प्रातिपदिक (stem in compound)

• युगले: in the pair
• युगले: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yugala (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (अधिकरण) एकवचन (Neuter; Locative; Singular)

• तत्पादपद्मयुगले: at the pair of his lotus-feet
• तत्पादपद्मयुगले: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad + pāda + padma + yugala (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (अधिकरण) एकवचन (Neuter; Locative; Singular); तत्पुरुषः ‘तस्य पादपद्मयोः युगले’

• प्रणतः: bowed
• प्रणतः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: pra-√nam (नम्) (धातु)
• Form: क्त (past passive participle) ‘bowed down’; पुंलिङ्ग प्रथमा एकवचन (Masculine; Nominative; Singular)

• बभाषे: spoke
• बभाषे: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √bhāṣ (भाष्) (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (परोक्षभूत/परफेक्ट); प्रथमपुरुष; एकवचन; आत्मनेपद (Perfect; 3rd person; Singular; Ātmanepada)

Speaker

Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator; specific speaker not stated in this excerpt)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Yogin-saṅga (bhasma-prabhāva)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Close-up sacred moment: white ash motes cling to the yogin’s limbs; they drift onto the penitent, whose dark smoky aura shatters; he suddenly ‘remembers’ former births, trembles, and falls at the yogin’s lotus-feet.

Characters & Entities

• Bhasma (vibhūti)
• Śiva-yogin
• Brahmarākṣasa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Grace purifies karmic darkness and awakens moral memory, leading naturally to surrender at the feet of the holy.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

No specific tīrtha is named; the verse glorifies Śaiva sanctity—especially bhasma and the saint’s feet.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Implied Śaiva practice: reverence for sacred ash (bhasma/vibhūti) and devotion at the feet of the holy; no explicit rite is commanded.