Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 61
Devanagari script
भोजयेद्ब्रह्णांश्चैव तापसाञ्छंसिवव्रतान् । लक्षहोमं प्रकुर्वीत शिवहोमं ग्रहादिकम्
Transliteration
bhojayedbrahṇāṃścaiva tāpasāñchaṃsivavratān | lakṣahomaṃ prakurvīta śivahomaṃ grahādikam
Translation
ব্রাহ্মণদের ও ব্রতনিষ্ঠ তপস্বীদের ভোজন করাবে। লক্ষহোম সম্পাদন করবে, এবং শিবহোম ও গ্রহাদির শান্তিকর্মও করবে।
Word by Word
भोजयेत्should feed
भोजयेत्:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootभुज् (धातु) [णिच्]
Formविधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद; णिच्-प्रयोजक — Optative causative, 3rd person, Singular
ब्रह्मणान्Brahmins
ब्रह्मणान्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootब्रह्मण (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (कर्म), बहुवचन — Masculine, Accusative (2nd), Plural
चand
च:
Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय, समुच्चयबोधक — conjunction
एवindeed
एव:
Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय, निपात (अवधारण) — particle (emphasis)
तापसान्ascetics
तापसान्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootतापस (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, बहुवचन — Masculine, Accusative (2nd), Plural
शंसिवव्रतान्those observing praiseworthy vows
शंसिवव्रतान्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootशंसिव (प्रातिपदिक) + व्रत (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, बहुवचन — Masculine, Accusative (2nd), Plural
लक्षहोमम्a hundred-thousand oblations (lakṣa-homa)
लक्षहोमम्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootलक्ष (प्रातिपदिक) + होम (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन — Masculine, Accusative (2nd), Singular
प्रकुर्वीतshould perform
प्रकुर्वीत:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootप्र-√कृ (धातु)
Formविधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन, आत्मनेपद — Optative, 3rd person, Singular, Ātmanepada
शिवहोमम्Śiva-homa (oblations to Śiva)
शिवहोमम्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootशिव (प्रातिपदिक) + होम (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन — Masculine, Accusative (2nd), Singular
ग्रहादिकम्including (rites for) planets etc.
ग्रहादिकम्:
Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootग्रह (प्रातिपदिक) + आदि (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन — Neuter, Accusative (2nd), Singular; विशेषण (शिवहोमम्) — adjective qualifying ‘śivahoma’
Speaker
Kumāreśvara (Skanda/Kārttikeya) (contextual attribution)
Characters & Entities
B
BrāhmaṇaT
TāpasaL
Lakṣa-homaŚ
Śiva-homaG
GrahaFAQs
Ritual worship is completed by service—feeding the worthy—and by śānti rites that harmonize personal and cosmic order.
Not named in this verse; it continues the Kumāreśvara worship regimen tied to the saṅgama-tīrtha context.
Feed brāhmaṇas and ascetics; perform lakṣa-homa, Śiva-homa, and graha-related pacification rites.