Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 47

Devanagari script

द्वादशमे चैव कन्या स्याद्भर्तृसंयुता

Transliteration

dvādaśame caiva kanyā syādbhartṛsaṃyutā

Translation

দ্বাদশ বছরে কন্যা স্বামীর সঙ্গে যুক্ত হয়ে যাবে।

Word by Word

• द्वादशमे: in the twelfth (year/age)
• द्वादशमे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्वादशम (प्रातिपदिक; द्वादश + म)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; क्रमवाचक विशेषण (ordinal)

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

• एव: indeed; just
• एव: Sambandha/Connector (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; अवधारणार्थक निपात (emphatic particle)

• कन्या: a maiden; girl
• कन्या: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कन्या (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• स्यात्: should be; would be
• स्यात्: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: अस् (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• भर्तृसंयुता: joined with a husband; married
• भर्तृसंयुता: Karta-Predicative (कर्ता-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भर्तृ-सम्-युत (प्रातिपदिक; भर्तृ + संयुत)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; विशेषण (कन्या इत्यस्य)

Speaker

Unspecified (Purāṇic narrator within Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya; deduced as a narrator describing Kali-yuga signs)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A brief, stark vignette: a child-bride motif presented not as celebration but as ominous sign of age’s disorder; elders appear anxious; a temple silhouette stands as moral witness.

Characters & Entities

• Kali-yuga

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

It presents early marriage as one among the disruptive signs of Kali-yuga, underscoring the broader theme of social instability and the need for dharmic steadiness.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

None is named in this verse.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; it is a sign-description.