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Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 33

Devanagari script

पनस उवाच । जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्त्यादियदविद्याविजृंभितम् । जाग्रदादिविहीनाय नमोऽस्मै ज्ञानरूपिणे

Transliteration

panasa uvāca | jāgratsvapnasuṣuptyādiyadavidyāvijṛṃbhitam | jāgradādivihīnāya namo'smai jñānarūpiṇe

Translation

Panasa sprach: Wachen, Träumen und Tiefschlaf sind nur das Aufblühen der Unwissenheit. Verehrung dem Einen, der frei von solchen Zuständen ist, dessen Wesen reines Wissen ist.

Word by Word
पनसःPanasa (name of speaker)
पनसः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootपनस (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन
उवाचsaid
उवाच:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootवच् (धातु)
Formलिट्-लकार (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन
जाग्रत्waking (state)
जाग्रत्:
Visheshya (that which is qualified)
TypeNoun
Rootजाग्रत् (कृदन्त/प्रातिपदिक; √जागृ)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc.), एकवचन; (अवस्था-नाम)
स्वप्नdream (state)
स्वप्न:
Visheshya
TypeNoun
Rootस्वप्न (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc.), एकवचन; (अवस्था-नाम)
सुषुप्तिdeep sleep (state)
सुषुप्ति:
Visheshya
TypeNoun
Rootसुषुप्ति (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc.), एकवचन; (अवस्था-नाम)
आदिand so on
आदि:
Sambandha (relation marker)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootआदि (प्रातिपदिक/अव्ययप्राय)
Formअव्यय; समुच्चय/आद्यार्थक (etc., beginning with)
यत्which
यत्:
Visheshya
TypeNoun
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc.), एकवचन; सम्बन्धसूचक (relative pronoun)
अविद्याignorance
अविद्या:
Karana (Instrument/करण)
TypeNoun
Rootअविद्या (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया-तत्पुरुषे पूर्वपद-सम्बन्धः (instrumental sense in compound: 'by/through ignorance')
विजृंभितम्manifested/expanded
विजृंभितम्:
Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootवि + जृम्भ् (धातु)
Formभूतकृदन्त (क्त), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc.), एकवचन; कर्मणि प्रयोग (past passive participle)
जाग्रत्waking
जाग्रत्:
Visheshya
TypeNoun
Rootजाग्रत् (कृदन्त/प्रातिपदिक; √जागृ)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; (अवस्था-नाम)
आदिand the rest
आदि:
Sambandha
TypeIndeclinable
Rootआदि (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; आद्यार्थक (etc.)
विहीनायto the one devoid (of)
विहीनाय:
Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
TypeAdjective
Rootविहीन (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी-विभक्ति (Dative/4th), एकवचन
नमःsalutation
नमः:
Kriya (speech-act)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootनमस् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formअव्यय; नमस्कारार्थक (salutation particle), प्रायः चतुर्थी/षष्ठी-संबद्ध
अस्मैto him
अस्मै:
Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
TypeNoun
Rootइदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी-विभक्ति (Dative/4th), एकवचन
ज्ञानknowledge
ज्ञान:
Sambandha
TypeNoun
Rootज्ञान (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग; समासपूर्वपद (in compound)
रूपिणेto the one whose nature is knowledge
रूपिणे:
Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
TypeAdjective
Rootरूपिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी-विभक्ति (Dative/4th), एकवचन; ज्ञान-रूपिन् (having the form of knowledge)
Speaker

Panasa

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Rāmeśvara/Setu-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A serene ascetic-figure (Panasa) offers namaskāra before a liṅga radiating pure white light, while symbolic panels of waking, dream, and deep sleep dissolve into a single luminous consciousness above the sea-shore of Setu.

Characters & Entities
R
Rāmanātha
R
Rāmeśvara
Ś
Śiva

FAQs

True Śiva (Rāmanātha) is pure consciousness beyond the changing states of waking, dream, and deep sleep, which arise from ignorance.

Setu/Rāmeśvaram (Rāmeśvara-kṣetra), praised in the Setukhaṇḍa as a liberating Śaiva pilgrimage.

No explicit ritual is stated here; it is a jñāna-centered salutation (namas) forming part of a devotional stuti.

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