Shloka 13 - Adhyaya 90 - Tirtha Mahatmya - Nagara Khanda | German | Vedapath

Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 13

Devanagari script

एवं वृष्टेः क्षये जाते नष्टे धर्मपथे तथा । लोकेऽस्मिन्नस्थिसंघातैः पूरिते भस्मना वृते

Transliteration

evaṃ vṛṣṭeḥ kṣaye jāte naṣṭe dharmapathe tathā | loke'sminnasthisaṃghātaiḥ pūrite bhasmanā vṛte

Translation

So geschah es: Als die Regen ausblieben und der Pfad des Dharma verloren ging, wurde diese Welt von Knochenhaufen erfüllt und mit Asche bedeckt.

Word by Word

एवम्thus

वृष्टेःof rain

क्षयेin (the state of) decline, at the end

जातेhaving occurred

नष्टेhaving perished

धर्मपथेin the path of dharma

तथाand likewise

लोकेin the world

अस्मिन्in this

अस्थिसंघातैःwith heaps of bones

पूरितेbeing filled

भस्मनाwith ash

वृतेbeing covered

Speaker

Skanda (deduced; Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya narration style)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A grey landscape carpeted with ash; scattered bone heaps; a lone survivor with cloth over mouth; distant ruined huts under a blank sky.

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

The Purāṇic worldview links ethical decline with cosmic suffering; dharma is portrayed as the sustaining ‘path’ whose loss leads to widespread ruin.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

No single tīrtha is named in the verse; it serves as the narrative preface within the Tīrthamāhātmya context.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None explicitly; the verse diagnoses conditions that later motivate religious action.