Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 67

Devanagari script

तव कामाः समृद्धाः स्युरानुसूयेय तापस । ज्ञानं ते परमं भावि महामोहविनाशनम्

Transliteration

tava kāmāḥ samṛddhāḥ syurānusūyeya tāpasa | jñānaṃ te paramaṃ bhāvi mahāmohavināśanam

Translation

O Asket, Sohn der Anasūyā: Mögen deine Wünsche in Fülle erfüllt werden. Und möge in dir das höchste Wissen aufgehen — das Wissen, das große Verblendung vernichtet.

Word by Word

• tava: your
• tava: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (Pronoun), षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन (Singular)

• kāmāḥ: desires
• kāmāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kāma (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन (Plural)

• samṛddhāḥ: fulfilled, prospered
• samṛddhāḥ: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sam-√ṛdh (धातु) → samṛddha (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृत् (Past participle/क्त), पुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन (Plural); विशेषण (qualifying kāmāḥ)

• syuḥ: may be / will become
• syuḥ: Kriya (Verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √as (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन (Plural); परस्मैपद (Parasmaipada)

• ānusūyeya: O Anusūyā
• ānusūyeya: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ānusūyā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग (Feminine), सम्बोधन (8th/Vocative), एकवचन (Singular)

• tāpasa: O ascetic
• tāpasa: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tāpasa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), सम्बोधन (8th/Vocative), एकवचन (Singular)

• jñānam: knowledge
• jñānam: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: jñāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd Nom/Acc), एकवचन (Singular)

• te: of you / your
• te: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (Pronoun), षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन (Singular)

• paramam: supreme
• paramam: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: parama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd Nom/Acc), एकवचन (Singular); विशेषण (qualifying jñānam)

• bhāvi: forthcoming, destined to arise
• bhāvi: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √bhū (धातु) → bhāvin (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: कृदन्त (future/possessive sense: 'to be, forthcoming'), नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd Nom/Acc), एकवचन (Singular); विशेषण (qualifying jñānam)

• mahā-moha-vināśanam: destroyer of great delusion
• mahā-moha-vināśanam: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: mahā (प्रातिपदिक) + moha (प्रातिपदिक) + vināśana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd Nom/Acc), एकवचन (Singular); षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (determinative: 'destruction of great delusion'); विशेषण (qualifying jñānam)

Speaker

Śiva

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī (contextual)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Anasūyā’s son (tāpasa)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Śiva bestows a blessing on the ascetic son of Anasūyā; one hand grants worldly fulfillment, another radiates a flame-like light of knowledge dissolving a dark cloud labeled 'moha'.

Characters & Entities

• Śiva
• Anasūyā
• Durvāsas
• Kāśī

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Devotion expressed through praising Kāśī culminates in Śiva’s grace: fulfillment and liberating knowledge that ends delusion.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), whose praise leads to Śiva’s boon of jñāna.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No new rite is stated here; it concludes with Śiva’s blessing resulting from Kāśī-stavana.