Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 9

Devanagari script

यस्य यस्य गृहे याति स त्रितो वेदपारगः । तत्र तत्र वरां पूजां लेभे गाश्चैव पुष्कलाः

Transliteration

yasya yasya gṛhe yāti sa trito vedapāragaḥ | tatra tatra varāṃ pūjāṃ lebhe gāścaiva puṣkalāḥ

Translation

Whichever house that Trita, master of the Vedas, entered, there and there he received excellent honor, and abundant cows as well.

Word by Word

• yasya: of whom/whose
• yasya: Sambandha (Relative genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसक, षष्ठी, एकवचन; सम्बन्धसूचक ‘whose/of whom’

• yasya: of each (one)
• yasya: Sambandha (Relative genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी, एकवचन; पुनरुक्ति (distributive)

• gṛhe: in (the) house
• gṛhe: Adhikarana (Locus/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: gṛha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन

• yāti: goes
• yāti: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √yā (या) (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद; ‘goes’

• saḥ: he
• saḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; ‘he’

• tritaḥ: Trita
• tritaḥ: Karta (Apposition/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: trita (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; व्यक्तिनाम

• vedapāragaḥ: knower/master of the Vedas
• vedapāragaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: veda + pāraga (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; उपपद-तत्पुरुष (‘वेदस्य पारगः’ = one who has gone to the far shore of the Veda)

• tatra: there
• tatra: Deśa-adhikaraṇa (Place adjunct/देशाधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatra (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (देशवाचक) = ‘there’

• tatra: in each place
• tatra: Deśa-adhikaraṇa (Place adjunct/देशाधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatra (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; पुनरुक्ति (distributive) = ‘in each place’

• varām: excellent
• varām: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘excellent’

• pūjām: honour/worship
• pūjām: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pūjā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• lebhe: obtained
• lebhe: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √labh (लभ्) (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; आत्मनेपद; ‘obtained’

• gāḥ: cows
• gāḥ: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: go (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, बहुवचन

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (Conjunction/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (समुच्चय)

• eva: indeed
• eva: Niyama (Emphasis/अवधारण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (अवधारण) = ‘indeed/just’

• puṣkalāḥ: abundant
• puṣkalāḥ: Karma-viśeṣaṇa (Object qualifier/कर्मविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: puṣkala (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; ‘abundant’ (agreeing with gāḥ understood as subject complement of ‘obtained’)

Speaker

Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator within Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya; exact speaker not explicit in the excerpt)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa (contextual destination)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Trita, renowned as a Veda-master, enters various homes; each household offers him arghya, pādya, garlands, and gifts of cows, honoring him as a living embodiment of Veda.

Characters & Entities

• Trita

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Honoring the learned and supporting dharma through gifts (especially cows) increases auspiciousness and social righteousness.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse sits within the Prabhāsa-kṣetra māhātmya flow; the merit-bearing acts culminate in Prabhāsa.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Go-dāna (gift of cows) and pūjā (honoring) of a Veda-knower are implied as dharmic supports for yajña.