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Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 40

Devanagari script

महेश्वरो वा मधुकैटभारिर्हृद्याश्रितो ध्यानमयोऽद्वितीयः । अभेदबुद्ध्या परमार्तिहंता रिपुः स एवातिप्रियो भवेत्ततः

Transliteration

maheśvaro vā madhukaiṭabhārirhṛdyāśrito dhyānamayo'dvitīyaḥ | abhedabuddhyā paramārtihaṃtā ripuḥ sa evātipriyo bhavettataḥ

Translation

Ob Maheśvara oder der Bezwinger von Madhu und Kaiṭabha—im Herzen wohnend, aus Meditation gewoben, der Eine ohne Zweiten—: Wird er mit der Einsicht der Nicht-Verschiedenheit (abheda-buddhi) geschaut, wird er zum Vernichter höchsten Leids. So wird selbst ein Feind überaus lieb.

Word by Word
महेश्वरःMahēśvara
महेश्वरः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootमहेश्वर (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'Mahēśvara'
वाor
वा:
Sambandha (Particle/निपात)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootवा (अव्यय)
Formविकल्पार्थक-अव्यय (disjunctive particle: 'or')
मधुकैटभारिःslayer/enemy of Madhu and Kaiṭabha
मधुकैटभारिः:
Karta (Apposition/समानााधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootमधु (प्रातिपदिक) + कैटभ (प्रातिपदिक) + अरि (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'enemy of Madhu and Kaiṭabha' (मधुकैटभयोः अरिः)
हृदिin the heart
हृदि:
Adhikarana (Locus/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootहृद् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/locative), एकवचन — 'in the heart'
आश्रितःdwelling, resorting
आश्रितः:
Visheshana (Adjectival qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Root√श्रि (धातु) उपसर्ग: आ + क्त (कृदन्त)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'resorted to/dwelling'
ध्यानमयःmade of meditation
ध्यानमयः:
Visheshana (Adjectival qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootध्यान (प्रातिपदिक) + मय (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'consisting of meditation' (ध्यानमय)
अद्वितीयःwithout a second
अद्वितीयः:
Visheshana (Adjectival qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootअद्वितीय (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'without a second, unrivalled'
अभेदबुद्ध्याby non-dual understanding
अभेदबुद्ध्या:
Karana (Instrument/करण)
TypeNoun
Rootअभेद (प्रातिपदिक) + बुद्धि (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया, एकवचन — 'by the notion of non-difference' (अभेदस्य बुद्धिः)
परमार्तिहंताdestroyer of great suffering
परमार्तिहंता:
Visheshana (Adjectival qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootपरम (प्रातिपदिक) + आर्ति (प्रातिपदिक) + हन्तृ (प्रातिपदिक; √हन् + तृच्)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'destroyer of supreme distress' (परमा आर्तिः; तस्य हन्ता)
रिपुःan enemy
रिपुः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootरिपु (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'enemy'
सःhe
सः:
Karta (Correlative/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'he/that'
एवindeed
एव:
Sambandha (Particle/निपात)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव (अव्यय)
Formअवधारण-अव्यय (emphatic particle: 'indeed/only')
अतिप्रियःvery dear
अतिप्रियः:
Visheshana (Adjectival qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootअति (अव्यय/उपसर्गवत्) + प्रिय (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'very dear'
भवेत्would become
भवेत्:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√भू (धातु)
Formविधिलिङ् (optative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन — 'would become/should be'
ततःtherefore
ततः:
Hetu/Anantarya (Result/sequence)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootततः (अव्यय)
Formतस्मात्-अर्थे अव्यय (consequential adverb: 'therefore/then')
Speaker

Narrative voice / doctrinal verse (speaker not explicit)

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Brāhmaṇas (outer); Umā/participants in the inner narrative

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A contemplative tableau: Śiva and Viṣṇu appear as two iconographic forms dissolving into a single luminous presence seated in the heart-lotus; an erstwhile enemy bows, transformed by non-dual insight.

Characters & Entities
M
Maheśvara (Śiva)
M
Madhukaiṭabhāri (Viṣṇu)
A
Abheda-buddhi

FAQs

Seeing the Divine with abheda-buddhi (non-dual understanding) dissolves hostility and suffering; the One in the heart is beyond sectarian division.

No single tirtha is named in this verse; it serves as a doctrinal centerpiece within the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra Māhātmya / Cāturmāsya teaching frame.

Meditative worship (dhyāna) on the indwelling advitīya reality is implied, rather than an external rite.

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