Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 65

Devanagari script

यत्किञ्चिदशुभं कर्म कृतं मानुषबुद्धिना । तत्सर्वं विलयं याति श्रीसोमेश्वरपूजनात्

Transliteration

yatkiñcidaśubhaṃ karma kṛtaṃ mānuṣabuddhinā | tatsarvaṃ vilayaṃ yāti śrīsomeśvarapūjanāt

Translation

Welches unheilvolle Tun auch immer aus bloß menschlichem Urteil begangen wurde—alles vergeht durch die Verehrung Śrī Someśvaras.

Word by Word

• yat: whatever
• yat: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक सर्वनाम (relative)

• kiñcit: anything / some
• kiñcit: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kim (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) + cit (अव्यय-प्रत्यय)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; अनिश्चितार्थक सर्वनाम (indefinite)

• aśubham: inauspicious / evil
• aśubham: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: aśubha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेषण

• karma: deed / action
• karma: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: karman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• kṛtam: done
• kṛtam: Kriya (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: kṛ (धातु) → kṛta (कृदन्त)
• Form: कृदन्त—क्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘कृतं’ = ‘done’

• mānuṣa-buddhinā: with human understanding
• mānuṣa-buddhinā: Karana (Instrument/Means/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mānuṣa (प्रातिपदिक) + buddhi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; समासः—कर्मधारय/तत्पुरुष (mānuṣī buddhiḥ = mānuṣabuddhiḥ)

• tat: that
• tat: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• sarvam: all
• sarvam: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; विशेषण

• vilayam: destruction / dissolution
• vilayam: Gati (Goal/गति)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vilaya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• yāti: goes / comes to
• yāti: Kriya (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √yā (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• śrī-someśvara-pūjanāt: from the worship of Śrī Someśvara
• śrī-someśvara-pūjanāt: Hetu (Cause/Reason/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śrī (प्रातिपदिक) + someśvara (प्रातिपदिक) + pūjana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; समासः—षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (someśvarasya pūjanam), ‘śrī’ उपपद-पूर्वपद

Speaker

Śiva (deduced)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Śrī Someśvara (Somnātha) at Prabhāsa

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A pilgrim offers bilva leaves, water, and lamps before the Somnātha liṅga; a dark mist of ‘aśubha’ dissolves into light radiating from the shrine, while the sea-wind and conch-sound frame the coastal kṣetra.

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Someśvara
• Karma

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Devotional worship at a great tīrtha is proclaimed as a powerful purifier that dissolves accumulated inauspicious karma.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Śrī Someśvara at Prabhāsa-kṣetra.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Śrī Someśvara-pūjā (worship of Someśvara) as a purificatory act akin to prāyaścitta.