Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 16

Devanagari script

कपिमालिङ्गयामास वरं तस्मै प्रदत्तवान् । अद्यप्रभृति ते तीर्थं भविष्यति न संशयः

Transliteration

kapimāliṅgayāmāsa varaṃ tasmai pradattavān | adyaprabhṛti te tīrthaṃ bhaviṣyati na saṃśayaḥ

Translation

Er umarmte den Affen und gewährte ihm einen Segen: „Von heute an wird dies dein Tīrtha sein—ohne Zweifel.“

Word by Word

• कपिम्: the monkey (Hanumān)
• कपिम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कपि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/कर्म), एकवचन; Accusative

• आलिङ्गयामास: embraced
• आलिङ्गयामास: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-लिङ्ग् (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (परोक्षभूत/Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; Parasmaipada; periphrastic perfect usage

• वरम्: a boon
• वरम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/कर्म), एकवचन; Accusative

• तस्मै: to him
• तस्मै: Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, पुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th/सम्प्रदान), एकवचन; Dative

• प्रदत्तवान्: (he) granted/gave
• प्रदत्तवान्: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र-दा (धातु) → प्रदत्तवत् (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: कृदन्त: क्तवत् (past active participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; agrees with implied subject (हरः)

• अद्य: today
• अद्य: Adhikarana (Time/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अद्य (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; कालवाचक क्रियाविशेषण (temporal adverb)

• प्रभृति: from (now) onward
• प्रभृति: Adhikarana (Time/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: प्रभृति (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; 'from ... onwards' (postposition-like)

• ते: your
• ते: Sambandha (Possession/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्वद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), एकवचन; Genitive

• तीर्थम्: (this) tīrtha
• तीर्थम्: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/कर्ता), एकवचन; Nominative

• भविष्यति: will be
• भविष्यति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू (धातु)
• Form: लृट् (भविष्यत्काल/Future), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; Parasmaipada

• न: not/no
• न: Pratishedha (Negation/निषेध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निषेध (negation particle)

• संशयः: doubt
• संशयः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: संशय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/कर्ता), एकवचन; Nominative (in 'no doubt')

Speaker

Narrator conveying Śiva’s boon (implied Śiva/Hara as granter)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kapitīrtha

Type: ghat

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Pārtha

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Śiva embraces a monkey-devotee and grants a boon declaring the tīrtha to belong to him from that day onward—an intimate moment of divine affection and consecration.

Characters & Entities

• Hara/Śiva
• Hanumān
• Tīrtha

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

A tīrtha becomes sanctified through divine recognition and blessing; grace turns a personal purification site into a public sacred geography.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

A tīrtha on the Revā/Narmadā bank is established as belonging to Hanumān (a Hanumān-associated tīrtha).

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No explicit ritual is added; the verse functions as tīrtha-pratiṣṭhā (site-consecration) through Śiva’s boon.