Shloka 12 - Adhyaya 223 - Prabhasa Kshetra Mahatmya - Prabhasa Khanda | German | Vedapath

Vyasa

Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 12

Devanagari script

बाल्ये वयसि यत्पापं वार्द्धके यौवनेऽपि वा । अज्ञानाज्ज्ञानतो वापि यः करोति नरः प्रिये । तत्र स्नात्वा प्रमुच्येत तीर्थे गात्रप्रमोचने

Transliteration

bālye vayasi yatpāpaṃ vārddhake yauvane'pi vā | ajñānājjñānato vāpi yaḥ karoti naraḥ priye | tatra snātvā pramucyeta tīrthe gātrapramocane

Translation

Welche Sünde ein Mensch auch in Kindheit, Jugend oder Alter begeht — aus Unwissenheit oder wissentlich, o Geliebte — durch das Bad in der Tīrtha namens Gātra-pramocana wird er davon erlöst.

Word by Word

बाल्येin childhood

वयसिin age (at a stage of life)

यत्whatever

पापम्sin

वार्द्धकेin old age

यौवनेin youth

अपिalso, even

वाor

अज्ञानात्from ignorance; ignorantly

ज्ञानतःknowingly

वाor

अपिalso

यःwho

करोतिdoes, commits

नरःa man

प्रियेO beloved

तत्रthere

स्नात्वाhaving bathed

प्रमुच्येतwould be completely freed

तीर्थेin the sacred ford/place of pilgrimage

गात्रप्रमोचनेat (the tīrtha called) ‘Gātra-pramocana’

Speaker

Īśvara (Śiva) (deduced from immediate context; explicit from v.16)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Gātra-pramocana

Type: ghat

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Devī (addressed as ‘priye’)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A sequence-like tableau: the same pilgrim shown as child, youth, and elder (three vignettes) converging at one ghāṭa to bathe at Gātra-pramocana, symbolizing cleansing across time; Devī is addressed as witness.

Characters & Entities

Gātra-pramocana Tīrtha

Devī

Prabhāsakṣetra

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

No sin is beyond purification when one turns to dharmic remedies—especially tīrtha-snāna performed with sincere intent.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Gātra-pramocana Tīrtha within Prabhāsakṣetra.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Snāna at Gātra-pramocana as a universal purifier for sins committed knowingly or unknowingly.