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Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 57

Devanagari script

इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखंडे तृतीयेऽर्बुदखण्डेऽवियुक्तक्षेत्रमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनाम सप्तपञ्चाशत्तमोऽध्यायः

Transliteration

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe tṛtīye'rbudakhaṇḍe'viyuktakṣetramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptapañcāśattamo'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet das siebenundfünfzigste Kapitel, genannt „Beschreibung der Größe des Aviyukta-kṣetra“, im dritten Teil, dem Arbuda Khaṇḍa, innerhalb des siebten Buches, des Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa, des heiligen Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in der Sammlung von einundachtzigtausend Versen.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quotation marker

श्रीस्कांदेin the revered Skanda (Purāṇa)

महापुराणेin the Mahāpurāṇa

एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यांin the (collection) of eighty-one thousand (verses)

संहितायाम्in the Saṃhitā

सप्तमेin the seventh

प्रभासखण्डेin the Prabhāsa section

तृतीयेin the third

अर्बुदखण्डेin the Arbuda section

अवियुक्तक्षेत्रमाहात्म्यवर्णनम्the description of the greatness of the ‘Aviyukta-kṣetra’

नामnamed; called

सप्तपञ्चाशत्तमःfifty-seventh

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

Narrator/Redactor (colophon)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Aviyukta-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A manuscript-style closing: scribal flourish, chapter title ‘Aviyukta-kṣetra-māhātmya’, and the sense of completion before the next pilgrimage instruction begins.

Characters & Entities

Skanda Mahāpurāṇa

Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa

Arbuda Khaṇḍa

Aviyukta-kṣetra

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

This is a colophon; it primarily preserves the textual identity and sacred framing of the māhātmya chapter.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Aviyukta-kṣetra is explicitly named as the focus of the chapter.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; the verse functions as an editorial closing statement for the chapter.