Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 9

Devanagari script

एकं पत्युः सुखं मुक्त्वा यत्सौभाग्यसमुद्भवम् । तस्मात्तद्देहि चास्माकं यदि तुष्टासि चंडिके

Transliteration

ekaṃ patyuḥ sukhaṃ muktvā yatsaubhāgyasamudbhavam | tasmāttaddehi cāsmākaṃ yadi tuṣṭāsi caṃḍike

Translation

Bis auf die eine Freude, die aus dem glückverheißenden Geschick des Gatten entspringt, sind wir allesamt allem beraubt. Darum gewähre uns dies, wenn du zufrieden bist, o Caṇḍikā.

Word by Word

• ekam: one, single
• ekam: Karma (Object/कर्म) (qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: eka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (or used adjectivally), द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; ‘one/single’ qualifying sukham

• patyuḥ: of (my/our) husband
• patyuḥ: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pati (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), एकवचन

• sukham: happiness, comfort
• sukham: Karma (Object/कर्म) (of muktvā)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sukha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन

• muktvā: having given up
• muktvā: Purvakala (Prior action/पूर्वकाल)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: √muc (धातु) → muktvā (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त्वान्त अव्यय (gerund/absolutive) ‘having abandoned/left’

• yat: which
• yat: Karma (Object/कर्म) (of implied ‘muktvā’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yat (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; relative pronoun referring to sukham

• saubhāgya-samudbhavam: arising from good fortune
• saubhāgya-samudbhavam: Karma (Object/कर्म) (qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: saubhāgya (प्रातिपदिक) + samudbhava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (genitive determinative) ‘सौभाग्यस्य समुद्भवम्’; नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; qualifying yat/sukham

• tasmāt: therefore, from that
• tasmāt: Hetu (Cause/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, पुं/नपुंसक, पञ्चमी (5th), एकवचन; ablative ‘from that/therefore’

• tat: that
• tat: Karma (Object/कर्म) (of dehi)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन

• dehi: give
• dehi: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √dā (धातु) → dehi (तिङन्त)
• Form: लोट् (imperative), मध्यमपुरुष (2nd), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (conjunction) समुच्चयार्थे (and)

• asmākam: of us, to us
• asmākam: Sampradāna (Recipient/सम्प्रदान) (genitive of recipient: ‘to us/for us’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, षष्ठी (6th), बहुवचन

• yadi: if
• yadi: Sambandha (Condition marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yadi (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (conditional particle) ‘if’

• tuṣṭā: pleased, satisfied
• tuṣṭā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता) (predicate adjective)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: tuṣṭa (कृदन्त/प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकर्मणि कृदन्त (PPP) from √tuṣ, स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; predicate with asi

• asi: you are
• asi: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √as (धातु) → asi (तिङन्त)
• Form: लट् (present), मध्यमपुरुष (2nd), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• caṃḍike: O Caṇḍikā
• caṃḍike: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: caṃḍikā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th/vocative), एकवचन

Speaker

Dakṣa’s daughters (the 27 wives of Soma)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: The maidens, distressed, plead before Caṇḍikā: they ask for the singular joy of a husband’s good fortune—sau-bhāgya—having been deprived of it.

Characters & Entities

• Caṇḍikā (Devī)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Worldly harmony, especially marital well-being, is sought through righteous devotion—placing human pain before the Divine for healing.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The kṣetra is the implicit sacred setting where such prayers to Devī are efficacious; the verse does not provide the site-name.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Implicitly, Devī-upāsanā for saubhāgya; no procedure is specified in this verse.