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Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 170

Devanagari script

यतीनां भोजनं यस्तु यच्छते कृष्णमन्दिरे । सिक्थेसिक्थे भवेत्तृप्तिः पितॄणां युगसंख्यया

Transliteration

yatīnāṃ bhojanaṃ yastu yacchate kṛṣṇamandire | sikthesikthe bhavettṛptiḥ pitṝṇāṃ yugasaṃkhyayā

Translation

Wer im Tempel Kṛṣṇas den Yatis, den Asketen, Speise darreicht—bei jedem Bissen wächst die Sättigung der Pitṛs (Ahnen) für eine Zeitspanne, die in Yugas gemessen wird.

Word by Word
यतीनाम्of ascetics
यतीनाम्:
Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootयति (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), बहुवचन
भोजनम्food/meal
भोजनम्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootभोजन (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/कर्म), एकवचन
यःwho
यः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन; सम्बन्धक (relative pronoun)
तुindeed
तु:
Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतु (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; निपात (particle)
यच्छतेgives
यच्छते:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√यम् (धातु)
Formलट्-लकार (Present), प्रथमपुरुष? (actually 3rd person), एकवचन; आत्मनेपद; √यम् (यच्छति/यच्छते) दाने (gives)
कृष्ण-मन्दिरेin Krishna's temple
कृष्ण-मन्दिरे:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootकृष्ण (प्रातिपदिक) + मन्दिर (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/अधिकरण), एकवचन; समासः—षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (कृष्णस्य मन्दिरे = in Krishna's temple)
सिक्थेin each morsel
सिक्थे:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootसिक्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/अधिकरण), एकवचन; पुनरुक्ति-प्रयोग (sikthe-sikthe = at each morsel/bit)
सिक्थेin each morsel
सिक्थे:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootसिक्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन; पुनरुक्ति (reduplication for distributive sense)
भवेत्would be/occurs
भवेत्:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√भू (धातु)
Formविधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद
तृप्तिःsatisfaction
तृप्तिः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootतृप्ति (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन
पितॄणाम्of the ancestors
पितॄणाम्:
Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootपितृ (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), बहुवचन
युग-संख्ययाfor a duration measured in yugas
युग-संख्यया:
Karana (Instrument/Measure/करण)
TypeNoun
Rootयुग (प्रातिपदिक) + संख्या (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/करण), एकवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुष (युगानां संख्या = by the count of yugas; i.e., for yuga-numbered duration)
Speaker

Pitṛs (ancestral beings)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: कृष्ण-मन्दिर (Dvārakādhīśa precinct)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Inside the temple courtyard, yatis sit in a line receiving food; a donor offers each portion with folded hands; with every morsel, luminous ancestral figures appear satisfied in the background sky.

Characters & Entities
K
Kṛṣṇa
K
Kṛṣṇa-mandira
Y
Yatis (ascetics)
P
Pitṛs
Y
Yuga

FAQs

Charity performed in a sacred setting—especially feeding renunciants at Kṛṣṇa’s temple—radiates merit to one’s ancestors with extraordinary longevity.

Kṛṣṇa’s temple in the Dvārakā sacred sphere (Dvārakā Māhātmya context).

Yati-bhojana/annadāna: feeding ascetics in Kṛṣṇa’s mandira as a Pitṛ-benefiting act.

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