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Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 45

Devanagari script

उलूकोहं त्रयोविंशे चतुर्विशे वनद्विपः । पंचविंशे भवे चास्मिञ्जातोहं ब्रह्मराक्षसः

Transliteration

ulūkohaṃ trayoviṃśe caturviśe vanadvipaḥ | paṃcaviṃśe bhave cāsmiñjātohaṃ brahmarākṣasaḥ

Translation

In the twenty-third birth I became an owl; in the twenty-fourth, a wild elephant. And in the twenty-fifth birth, here, I was born as a brahmarākṣasa.

Word by Word
उलूकःan owl
उलूकः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootउलूक (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन
अहम्I
अहम्:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootअहम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formउत्तम-पुरुष सर्वनाम; प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन
त्रयोविंशेin the twenty-third (birth)
त्रयोविंशे:
Adhikarana (Location/Time/अधिकरण)
TypeAdjective
Rootत्रि (प्रातिपदिक) + विंश (प्रातिपदिक; संख्या)
Formसप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; संख्या-विशेषण ‘twenty-third’
चतुर्विशेin the twenty-fourth (birth)
चतुर्विशे:
Adhikarana (Location/Time/अधिकरण)
TypeAdjective
Rootचतुर् (प्रातिपदिक) + विंश (प्रातिपदिक; संख्या)
Formसप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; संख्या-विशेषण ‘twenty-fourth’
वनद्विपःa forest-elephant
वनद्विपः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootवन (प्रातिपदिक) + द्विप (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (वनस्य द्विपः)
पञ्चविंशेin the twenty-fifth (birth)
पञ्चविंशे:
Adhikarana (Location/Time/अधिकरण)
TypeAdjective
Rootपञ्च (प्रातिपदिक) + विंश (प्रातिपदिक; संख्या)
Formसप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; संख्या-विशेषण ‘twenty-fifth’
भवेI become / I am (born)
भवे:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootभू (धातु)
Formलट्-लकार, उत्तम-पुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद
चand
च:
Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formसमुच्चय-अव्यय (conjunction)
अस्मिन्in this (birth/state)
अस्मिन्:
Adhikarana (Location/Time/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootइदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formसर्वनाम; पुं/नपुंसक-लिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन (Locative singular)
जातःborn
जातः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeVerb
Rootजन् (धातु)
Formक्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त (past passive participle); पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन
अहम्I
अहम्:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootअहम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formउत्तम-पुरुष सर्वनाम; प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन
ब्रह्मराक्षसःa brahmarākṣasa (brahmin-demon)
ब्रह्मराक्षसः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootब्रह्मन् (प्रातिपदिक) + राक्षस (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; कर्मधारय (ब्रह्मराक्षसः = ब्राह्मण-राक्षसः/‘brahmin-demon’)
Speaker

Unspecified in excerpt (same narrator, now identifying as brahmarākṣasa)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A being recounts becoming owl and wild elephant, culminating in birth as a brahmarākṣasa—suggesting a terrifying, hungry, liminal figure in a forest haunted by karmic residue.

Characters & Entities
U
ulūka (owl)
V
vanadvipa (wild elephant)
B
brahmarākṣasa

FAQs

Spiritual downfall can culminate in the brahmarākṣasa condition; dharma and purity protect one’s higher station.

No particular tīrtha is named in this verse.

None is directly mentioned.

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