Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 75

Devanagari script

तस्मिन्नहनि यस्तोयैः पितॄन्संतर्पयिष्यति । तस्याष्टादशकुष्ठानि क्षयं यास्यंति तत्क्षणात्

Transliteration

tasminnahani yastoyaiḥ pitṝnsaṃtarpayiṣyati | tasyāṣṭādaśakuṣṭhāni kṣayaṃ yāsyaṃti tatkṣaṇāt

Translation

An jenem Tage wird, wer die Pitṛs, die Ahnen, durch Wasserlibationen (tarpaṇa) sättigt, dessen achtzehn Arten von kuṣṭha, den Hautleiden, in eben diesem Augenblick vergehen.

Word by Word

• तस्मिन्: on that
• तस्मिन्: Adhikaraṇa (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम-विशेषण, पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th case), एकवचन

• अहनि: day
• अहनि: Adhikaraṇa (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अहन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th case), एकवचन

• यः: who (he who)
• यः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st case), एकवचन

• तोयैः: with waters
• तोयैः: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तोय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd case), बहुवचन; करण (instrument)

• पितॄन्: the ancestors (pitṛs)
• पितॄन्: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पितृ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd case), बहुवचन

• संतर्पयिष्यति: will satisfy/offer libations to
• संतर्पयिष्यति: Kriyā (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्+√तृप् (तृप् धातु, णिच् causative)
• Form: लृट्-लकार (Simple Future), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; णिजन्त (causative)

• तस्य: of him
• तस्य: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, षष्ठी (6th case), एकवचन

• अष्टादशकुष्ठानि: the eighteen leprosies/diseases
• अष्टादशकुष्ठानि: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अष्टादश (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक) + कुष्ठ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: द्विगु-समास; नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st case), बहुवचन

• क्षयम्: destruction, disappearance
• क्षयम्: Gati/Karman (Goal as object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd case), एकवचन; गत्यर्थक-क्रियायाः लक्ष्य (goal)

• यास्यन्ति: will go (i.e., will vanish)
• यास्यन्ति: Kriyā (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √या (या धातु)
• Form: लृट्-लकार (Simple Future), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन

• तत्क्षणात्: immediately, at that very moment
• तत्क्षणात्: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial modifier/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत् (सर्वनाम) + क्षण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्ययीभाव-समास; पञ्चमी-एकवचनरूपेण अव्ययवत् (ablative used adverbially)

Speaker

Unspecified (didactic narrative voice within the Māhātmya)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (tarpaṇa-ghāṭ/tīrtha)

Type: ghat

Visual Art Cues

Scene: At a ghāṭ, a devotee pours water through cupped hands for tarpaṇa; as the water falls, a radiant cleansing aura surrounds the body, with dark blemishes fading—symbolizing the ‘eighteen kuṣṭhas’ dissolving instantly; full moon overhead.

Characters & Entities

• Pitṛ
• Tarpaṇa
• Kuṣṭha
• Śrāvaṇa Paurṇamāsī (implied)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Service to the ancestors at a powerful tīrtha is portrayed as both spiritually purifying and capable of removing severe afflictions.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The Devikā-taṭa/Mūlasthāna tīrtha in Prabhāsa Kṣetra, particularly efficacious on the specified auspicious day.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Pitṛ-tarpaṇa (libations to ancestors) using tīrtha-water on that sacred day (contextually the Śrāvaṇa full-moon day).