Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 29

Devanagari script

यानि कानि च पापानि ब्रह्महत्यासमानि च । कृष्णजागरणे तानि क्षयं यांति न संशयः

Transliteration

yāni kāni ca pāpāni brahmahatyāsamāni ca | kṛṣṇajāgaraṇe tāni kṣayaṃ yāṃti na saṃśayaḥ

Translation

Welche Sünden es auch seien—selbst solche, die der brahma-hatyā gleichkommen—im Kṛṣṇa-Begleitwachen werden sie vernichtet; daran besteht kein Zweifel.

Word by Word

• यानि: which (things)
• यानि: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (relative pronoun), नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), बहुवचन (Plural)

• कानि: any
• कानि: विशेषण (Indefinite qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: किम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (interrogative/indefinite), नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), बहुवचन (Plural)

• च: and
• च: सम्बन्ध (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (conjunction)

• पापानि: sins
• पापानि: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), बहुवचन (Plural)

• ब्रह्महत्या-समानि: equal to brahma-hatya (killing a Brahmin)
• ब्रह्महत्या-समानि: विशेषण (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ब्रह्महत्या (प्रातिपदिक; ब्रह्मन् + हत्या) + समान (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास: ब्रह्महत्यायाः समानि; नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), बहुवचन (Plural)

• च: and
• च: सम्बन्ध (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (conjunction)

• कृष्ण-जागरणे: in the vigil for Kṛṣṇa
• कृष्ण-जागरणे: अधिकरण (Occasion/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृष्ण (प्रातिपदिक) + जागरण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास: कृष्णस्य जागरणे (Kṛṣṇa-vigil); नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन (Singular)

• तानि: those
• तानि: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (pronoun), नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), बहुवचन (Plural)

• क्षयम्: destruction; end
• क्षयम्: कर्म (Object/Result/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative/2nd), एकवचन (Singular)

• यान्ति: go to; reach
• यान्ति: क्रिया (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √या (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), परस्मैपदम्, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन (Plural)

• न: no; not
• न: निषेध (Negation/निषेध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (negation particle)

• संशयः: doubt
• संशयः: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: संशय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन (Singular)

Speaker

An unnamed Purāṇic narrator within Dvārakā Māhātmya

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kṛṣṇa-jāgara (Dvārakā)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: King (bhūpāla)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Devotees keep vigil before Kṛṣṇa; dark smoke-like forms symbolizing sins dissolve into light, emphasizing destruction of even brahmahatyā-like guilt.

Characters & Entities

• Kṛṣṇa
• Brahmahatyā

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Kṛṣṇa-jāgaraṇa is praised as a powerful purificatory act capable of exhausting even the gravest sins.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Dvārakā, where Kṛṣṇa’s vigil is celebrated as sin-destroying.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Observe Kṛṣṇa-jāgaraṇa as a prāyaścitta-like devotional discipline for purification.