Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 29

Devanagari script

भार्यया सहितो व्याधो हरिं ध्यात्वा पपात ह । नगार्धात्पतितो यावद्गतजीवो नराधिप

Transliteration

bhāryayā sahito vyādho hariṃ dhyātvā papāta ha | nagārdhātpatito yāvadgatajīvo narādhipa

Translation

«Le chasseur, avec son épouse, méditant sur Hari, tomba. Tombé du flanc de la montagne, il perdit la vie, ô roi.»

Word by Word

• भार्यया: with (his) wife
• भार्यया: Saha (Association/सह)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भार्या (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental/3rd), एकवचन (Singular)

• सहितः: accompanied (by)
• सहितः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सहित (प्रातिपदिक/कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past participle used adjectivally), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• व्याधः: hunter
• व्याधः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: व्याध (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• हरिम्: Hari (Vishnu)
• हरिम्: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: हरि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• ध्यात्वा: having meditated on
• ध्यात्वा: Pūrvakāla-kriyā (Prior action)
• Type: Verb
• Root: ध्यै (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (Gerund/Absolutive)

• पपात: fell
• पपात: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पत् (धातु)
• Form: लिट्-लकार (Perfect), परस्मैपद, प्रथम-पुरुष, एकवचन

• ह: indeed
• ह: Avyaya (Particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ह (अव्यय)
• Form: निपात (particle; emphasis/indeed)

• नग-अर्धात्: from the mountainside/half of the mountain
• नग-अर्धात्: Apādāna (Source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नग (प्रातिपदिक) + अर्ध (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी-विभक्ति (Ablative/5th), एकवचन; समासः षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (mountain's half/side)

• पतितः: fallen
• पतितः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पत् (धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• यावत्: until
• यावत्: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (Time/कालाधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यावत् (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (correlative; 'until/as long as')

• गतजीवः: lifeless, dead
• गतजीवः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: गत (गम्-धातु, कृदन्त) + जीव (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: बहुव्रीहि-समास (one whose life has gone), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• नराधिप: O king
• नराधिप: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नर + अधिप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन-विभक्ति (Vocative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (lord of men)

Speaker

Narrator within the dialogue (speaker not explicit in snippet)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Unnamed kuṇḍa and adjacent hill in Revākhaṇḍa episode

Type: peak

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Narādhipa (king)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A hunter and his wife, eyes inward in Hari-dhyāna, slip/fall from a rocky mountainside toward a kuṇḍa below; the moment is both tragic and sanctified by devotion.

Characters & Entities

• Hari
• King (Narādhipa)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Remembrance of the Divine (Hari-smaraṇa) even at a critical moment is presented as spiritually transformative.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse itself does not name the site; the surrounding Revā Khaṇḍa context links the event to a sacred locale associated with a kuṇḍa/tīrtha.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Meditative remembrance (dhyāna/smaraṇa) of Hari.