Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 91

Devanagari script

विनौषधैर्विना वैद्यैर्विनापथ्यपरिग्रहैः । कालेन निधनं प्राप्तः सूर्यलोके महीयते

Transliteration

vinauṣadhairvinā vaidyairvināpathyaparigrahaiḥ | kālena nidhanaṃ prāptaḥ sūryaloke mahīyate

Translation

Without medicines, without physicians, and without adopting dietary regimens, when he reaches death in due time, he is honored in the world of the Sun.

Word by Word

• विना: without
• विना: Sambandha (Relation marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: विना (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (उपपद/पूर्वसर्गसदृश, ‘without’); तृतीयाविभक्त्यर्थे प्रयोगः

• औषधैः: medicines
• औषधैः: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: औषध (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), बहुवचन

• विना: without
• विना: Sambandha (Relation marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: विना (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (उपपद): ‘without’

• वैद्यैः: physicians
• वैद्यैः: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वैद्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन

• विना: without
• विना: Sambandha (Relation marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: विना (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (उपपद): ‘without’

• पथ्यपरिग्रहैः: observances of proper regimen
• पथ्यपरिग्रहैः: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पथ्य (प्रातिपदिक) + परिग्रह (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (पथ्यस्य परिग्रहः = observance of regimen); पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन

• कालेन: by time
• कालेन: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: काल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया, एकवचन

• निधनम्: death
• निधनम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: निधन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन

• प्राप्तः: having met (it)
• प्राप्तः: Kartṛ (Agent/कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + आप् (धातु) → प्राप्त (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past passive participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; ‘having attained/reached’ (here: ‘having met (death)’)

• सूर्यलोके: in the Sun-world
• सूर्यलोके: Adhikaraṇa (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सूर्य (प्रातिपदिक) + लोक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (सूर्यस्य लोकः); पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन

• महीयते: is honored
• महीयते: Kriyā (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: मह् (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), आत्मनेपद, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; ‘is honored/glorified’

Speaker

Skanda (deduced, Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (contextual) / Sūrya-loka (result)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Agastya and/or sages (contextual)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee, free from medical interventions, lives in dharma; at life’s natural end, a radiant solar chariot or orb receives him, with attendants honoring him in Sūrya-loka.

Characters & Entities

• Sūrya-loka

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Purāṇic dharma links sincere worship with both worldly support and a luminous post-mortem destination.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The teaching belongs to the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī context, though the stated fruit is Sūrya-loka.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No new rite is added; it continues the promise of results for the earlier arghya and nāma worship of Sūrya.