Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 6

Devanagari script

तत्र प्राभासिके क्षेत्रे संस्थिताः पापनाशने । यादवस्थलमासाद्य यावद्रैवतको गिरि

Transliteration

tatra prābhāsike kṣetre saṃsthitāḥ pāpanāśane | yādavasthalamāsādya yāvadraivatako giri

Translation

Dort, im heiligen Gebiet von Prābhāsa, dem Vernichter der Sünden, blieben sie, nachdem sie die Siedlung der Yādavas erreicht hatten, die sich bis zum Berge Raivataka erstreckte.

Word by Word

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक-अव्यय (locative adverb)

• प्राभासिके: in the Prabhāsa-related
• प्राभासिके: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्राभासिक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter; agreeing with ‘क्षेत्रे’), सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; विशेषण

• क्षेत्रे: in the sacred field/place
• क्षेत्रे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षेत्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन

• संस्थिताः: stayed, were stationed
• संस्थिताः: Kriya (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम् + स्था (धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (Past participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; कर्तरि-प्रयोग (‘having stayed/being stationed’)

• पापनाशने: in the sin-destroying (place)
• पापनाशने: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पापनाशन (प्रातिपदिक: पाप + नाशन)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter; agreeing with ‘क्षेत्रे’), सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेषण (पापानां नाशनम्)

• यादवस्थलम्: the Yādava region/ground
• यादवस्थलम्: Karma (Goal/Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यादवस्थल (प्रातिपदिक: यादव + स्थल)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative/2nd), एकवचन; गत्यर्थकर्म (goal)

• आसाद्य: having reached
• आसाद्य: Kriya-viseshana (Adverbial participle/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ + सद् (धातु)
• Form: ल्यप्/क्त्वा-समकक्ष अव्यय-भाव (Gerund), ‘having reached/approached’

• यावत्: up to, as far as
• यावत्: Kriya-viseshana (Limit/अवधि)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यावत् (अव्यय)
• Form: परिमाण/अवधि-वाचक अव्यय (up to/as far as)

• रैवतकः: Raivataka
• रैवतकः: Samānādhikaraṇa (Apposition/समानाधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: रैवतक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेष्य (with ‘गिरिः’)

• गिरिः: mountain
• गिरिः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: गिरि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

Speaker

Skanda (narrating the Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya to a listener addressed as Devī)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Prābhāsika-kṣetra)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A map-like sacred panorama: the Prabhāsa region labeled as sin-destroying, with a Yādava settlement spreading toward the Raivataka mountain in the distance.

Characters & Entities

• Prabhāsa-kṣetra
• Yādavas
• Raivataka (mountain)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra is praised as a sin-destroying sacred landscape; dwelling or arriving there is presented as spiritually purifying.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Prabhāsa), described as pāpa-nāśana, with its extent reaching the Yādava region up to Mount Raivataka.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No explicit rite is stated in this verse; it establishes the sacred setting and geography of the tīrtha.