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Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 23

Devanagari script

इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखंडे तृतीयेऽर्बुदखंडे शुक्लतीर्थमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनाम त्रयोविंशोऽध्यायः

Transliteration

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe tṛtīye'rbudakhaṃḍe śuklatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma trayoviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus ends the twenty-third chapter, called “The Description of the Greatness of Śuklatīrtha,” in the Arbuda Khaṇḍa (third division) of the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa, within the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of the eighty-one-thousand-verse compilation.

Word by Word
itithus
iti:
Sambandha (Discourse marker/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootiti (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय (quotative particle): thus
śrīskāṃdein the revered Skanda (Purāṇa)
śrīskāṃde:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootśrī (प्रातिपदिक) + skanda (प्रातिपदिक)
Formकर्मधारय-समास (श्रीमान् स्कन्दः), नपुंसकलिङ्गे/पुंलिङ्गे लोके प्रचलित-नाम; सप्तमी, एकवचन (Locative, Singular): in Śrīskanda (Skanda Purāṇa)
mahāpurāṇein the great Purāṇa
mahāpurāṇe:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootmahā (प्रातिपदिक) + purāṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
Formकर्मधारय-समास, नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन (Neuter, Locative, Singular)
ekāśītisāhasryāmin the eighty-one-thousand (verses) [collection]
ekāśītisāhasryām:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeAdjective
Rootekāśīti (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक) + sāhasrī (प्रातिपदिक)
Formतत्पुरुष-समास (एकाशीतिः सहस्राणि यस्याः), स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन; विशेषण (Feminine, Locative, Singular)
saṃhitāyāmin the Saṃhitā
saṃhitāyām:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootsaṃhitā (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन (Feminine, Locative, Singular)
saptamein the seventh
saptame:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeAdjective
Rootsaptama (क्रमवाचक-प्रातिपदिक)
Formक्रमवाचक, पुं/नपुंसक, सप्तमी, एकवचन; विशेषण (Ordinal; Locative, Singular)
prabhāsakhaṇḍein the Prabhāsa section
prabhāsakhaṇḍe:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootprabhāsa (प्रातिपदिक) + khaṇḍa (प्रातिपदिक)
Formतत्पुरुष-समास (प्रभासस्य खण्डः), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन (Neuter, Locative, Singular)
tṛtīyein the third
tṛtīye:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeAdjective
Roottṛtīya (क्रमवाचक-प्रातिपदिक)
Formक्रमवाचक, पुं/नपुंसक, सप्तमी, एकवचन; विशेषण (Ordinal; Locative, Singular)
arbudakhaṇḍein the Arbuda section
arbudakhaṇḍe:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootarbuda (प्रातिपदिक) + khaṇḍa (प्रातिपदिक)
Formतत्पुरुष-समास (अर्बुदस्य खण्डः), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन
śuklatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanamthe description of the glory of Śukla-tīrtha
śuklatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanam:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootśukla (प्रातिपदिक) + tīrtha (प्रातिपदिक) + māhātmya (प्रातिपदिक) + varṇana (प्रातिपदिक)
Formबहुपद-तत्पुरुष-समास (शुक्लतीर्थस्य माहात्म्यस्य वर्णनम्), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन (Neuter, Nominative, Singular)
nāmanamed
nāma:
Sambandha (Apposition/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootnāman (प्रातिपदिक)
Formअव्ययप्राय प्रयोग (indeclinable usage): named/called
trayoviṃśaḥtwenty-third
trayoviṃśaḥ:
Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Roottrayas (संख्या) + viṃśati (प्रातिपदिक)
Formसंख्यायोगे समास/प्रयोग (23rd), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; विशेषण (Masculine, Nominative, Singular)
adhyāyaḥchapter
adhyāyaḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootadhyāya (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन (Masculine, Nominative, Singular)
Speaker

Narrator/Redactor (colophon)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Śuklatīrtha

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A scribe or reciter concludes a palm-leaf manuscript section titled ‘Śuklatīrtha-māhātmya’; listeners sit quietly as the chapter ends.

Characters & Entities
S
Skanda Mahāpurāṇa
P
Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa
A
Arbuda Khaṇḍa
Ś
Śuklatīrtha

FAQs

This is a colophon: it authenticates the textual unit and highlights that the teaching is a tīrtha-māhātmya centered on Śuklatīrtha.

Śuklatīrtha, explicitly named as the subject of the chapter’s māhātmya.

None; it functions as a formal closing statement of the chapter.

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