Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 33

Devanagari script

तत्र संक्रमणे भानोर्यः स्नानं कुरुते नरः । श्रद्धया परया युक्तो मुच्यते ब्रह्महत्यया

Transliteration

tatra saṃkramaṇe bhānoryaḥ snānaṃ kurute naraḥ | śraddhayā parayā yukto mucyate brahmahatyayā

Translation

Dort, zur Saṅkramaṇa der Sonne (Sonnenübergang), wird, wer in höchster श्रद्धा badet, sogar von der Sünde der brahmahatyā befreit.

Word by Word

• tatra: there
• tatra: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatra (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; देशवाचक क्रियाविशेषण

• saṃkramaṇe: at the transit (saṅkrānti)
• saṃkramaṇe: Adhikarana (Time/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃkramaṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7), एकवचन

• bhānoḥ: of the Sun
• bhānoḥ: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhānu (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6), एकवचन

• yaḥ: who
• yaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1), एकवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक सर्वनाम

• snānam: bath
• snānam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: snāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2), एकवचन

• kurute: does, takes (a bath)
• kurute: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: kṛ (धातु)
• Form: लट् (वर्तमान), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; आत्मनेपद

• naraḥ: a man
• naraḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता) (यः इत्यस्य विशेष्य)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1), एकवचन

• śraddhayā: with faith
• śraddhayā: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śraddhā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3), एकवचन

• parayā: supreme, intense
• parayā: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: para (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3), एकवचन; विशेषण (śraddhayā इत्यस्य)

• yuktaḥ: endowed, joined (with)
• yuktaḥ: Karta (Agent qualifier/कर्ता-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: yuj (धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past passive participle) ‘युक्त’; पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1), एकवचन; विशेषण (नरः/यः)

• mucyate: is freed
• mucyate: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: muc (धातु)
• Form: लट् (वर्तमान), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; कर्मणि प्रयोग (passive)

• brahmahatyayā: from the sin of brahmin-slaying
• brahmahatyayā: Hetu/Apadana (Cause/Separation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: brahmahatyā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3), एकवचन; हेतौ/सह (ablative sense expressed by instr. in passive context)

Speaker

Pulastya (deduced from immediate narrative context of Arbuda Khaṇḍa dialogue)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Raktānubandha

Type: ghat

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: nṛpa (king)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: At dawn on saṅkramaṇa, the sun’s disc rises; pilgrims enter the sacred water with folded hands; a symbolic dark stain (brahmahatyā) dissolves into golden light around the bather.

Characters & Entities

• Sūrya (Bhānu)
• Saṅkramaṇa
• Brahmahatyā
• Raktānubandha (Tīrtha—contextual)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Faith-filled observance at an auspicious cosmic time (solar transit) magnifies a tīrtha’s purificatory power.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse refers to bathing ‘there’—the same Raktānubandha tīrtha praised in the surrounding verses.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Snāna (ritual bathing) at the Sun’s saṅkramaṇa (saṅkrānti) performed with supreme śraddhā.