Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 72

Devanagari script

प्रतिपत्प्रभृति वैशाखे यावच्चतुर्दशीतिथिः । तावत्पूजा प्रकर्तव्या प्रेरणीप्रेक्षणीयकैः

Transliteration

pratipatprabhṛti vaiśākhe yāvaccaturdaśītithiḥ | tāvatpūjā prakartavyā preraṇīprekṣaṇīyakaiḥ

Translation

বৈশাখের প্রতিপদা থেকে চতুর্দশী তিথি পর্যন্ত, ততদিন যথাযথ প্রেরণা, তত্ত্বাবধান ও বিধিবদ্ধ আয়োজনসহ পূজা করা উচিত।

Word by Word

• प्रतिपत्-प्रभृति: starting from pratipat
• प्रतिपत्-प्रभृति: Kriya-visheshana (Temporal adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: प्रतिपत् (प्रातिपदिक) + प्रभृति (अव्यय/प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्ययीभाव-समास; आरम्भवाचक अव्यय (from the first lunar day onward)

• वैशाखे: in (the month of) Vaiśākha
• वैशाखे: Adhikarana (Location in time/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वैशाख (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (7th/Locative), एकवचन

• यावत्: until
• यावत्: Kriya-visheshana (Limit/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यावत् (अव्यय)
• Form: परिमाण/अवधि-बोधक अव्यय (until/as far as)

• चतुर्दशी-तिथिः: the fourteenth lunar day
• चतुर्दशी-तिथिः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: चतुर्दशी (प्रातिपदिक) + तिथि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: कर्मधारय (चतुर्दशी एव तिथिः), स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• तावत्: for that duration
• तावत्: Kriya-visheshana (Extent/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तावत् (अव्यय)
• Form: तावदर्थक-अव्यय (correlative: for that long/so long)

• पूजा: worship
• पूजा: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पूजा (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• प्रकर्तव्या: to be performed
• प्रकर्तव्या: Vidheyavisheshana (Predicate adjective/विधेयविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्र + कृ (धातु) → कर्तव्य (कृदन्त)
• Form: कर्तव्य-प्रत्ययान्त, स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; ‘पूजा’ इति विशेष्यस्य विशेषणम्

• प्रेरणी-प्रेक्षणीयकैः: by (those called) preraṇīs and prekṣaṇīyakas
• प्रेरणी-प्रेक्षणीयकैः: Kartr̥ (Agent/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रेरणी (प्रातिपदिक) + प्रेक्षणीयक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: इतरेतर-द्वन्द्व (प्रेरणी च प्रेक्षणीयकाः च), पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति, बहुवचन

Speaker

Īśvara (Śiva)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Prabhāsakṣetra)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Pilgrims in Prabhāsa during bright fortnight of Vaiśākha, performing daily worship with arranged upacāras; a calendar-like progression from pratipat to caturdaśī, lamps and offerings laid out in orderly rows.

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśākha
• Pratipat
• Caturdaśī
• Bhūtamātṛ (implied)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Sacred time (kāla) sanctifies practice; sustained worship across prescribed tithis is presented as a dharmic discipline.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra, within whose māhātmya this Vaiśākha observance is taught.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Perform the pūjā from Vaiśākha Pratipat through Caturdaśī, maintaining the necessary ritual preparations and observances.