Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 47
Devanagari script
द्वादशमे चैव कन्या स्याद्भर्तृसंयुता
Transliteration
dvādaśame caiva kanyā syādbhartṛsaṃyutā
Translation
Im zwölften Lebensjahr wird ein Mädchen bereits mit einem Gatten verbunden sein.
Word by Word
द्वादशमेin the twelfth (year/age)
द्वादशमे:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeAdjective
Rootद्वादशम (प्रातिपदिक; द्वादश + म)
Formपुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; क्रमवाचक विशेषण (ordinal)
चand
च:
Sambandha/Connector (सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; समुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)
एवindeed; just
एव:
Sambandha/Connector (सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; अवधारणार्थक निपात (emphatic particle)
कन्याa maiden; girl
कन्या:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootकन्या (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन
स्यात्should be; would be
स्यात्:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootअस् (धातु)
Formविधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद
भर्तृसंयुताjoined with a husband; married
भर्तृसंयुता:
Karta-Predicative (कर्ता-विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootभर्तृ-सम्-युत (प्रातिपदिक; भर्तृ + संयुत)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; विशेषण (कन्या इत्यस्य)
Speaker
Unspecified (Purāṇic narrator within Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya; deduced as a narrator describing Kali-yuga signs)
Visual Art Cues
Scene: A brief, stark vignette: a child-bride motif presented not as celebration but as ominous sign of age’s disorder; elders appear anxious; a temple silhouette stands as moral witness.
Characters & Entities
K
Kali-yugaFAQs
It presents early marriage as one among the disruptive signs of Kali-yuga, underscoring the broader theme of social instability and the need for dharmic steadiness.
None is named in this verse.
None; it is a sign-description.