Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 41
Devanagari script
विनष्टाशेषदुःखस्य तत्तीर्थस्नानवैभवात् । मृतत्वमभूद्यस्मादगस्त्यानुजजन्मनः
Transliteration
vinaṣṭāśeṣaduḥkhasya tattīrthasnānavaibhavāt | mṛtatvamabhūdyasmādagastyānujajanmanaḥ
Translation
Par la majestueuse puissance du bain en ce même tīrtha, toutes ses souffrances furent entièrement anéanties; ainsi, celui qui était né comme le cadet d’Agastya atteignit la mort, l’ultime départ du corps.
Word by Word
विनष्टाशेषदुःखस्यof him whose all sorrow had perished
विनष्टाशेषदुःखस्य:
Sambandha (Genitive relation)
TypeAdjective
Rootविनष्ट (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक) < वि + नश् (धातु) + अशेष (प्रातिपदिक) + दुःख (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive), एकवचन; बहुपद-तत्पुरुष (विनष्टम् अशेषं दुःखं यस्य)
तत्of that
तत्:
Viśeṣaṇa (Determiner)
TypeAdjective
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; निर्देश (demonstrative)
तीर्थस्नानवैभवात्from the power/glory of bathing at the tīrtha
तीर्थस्नानवैभवात्:
Hetu/Apādāna (Cause/source)
TypeNoun
Rootतीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक) + स्नान (प्रातिपदिक) + वैभव (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी-विभक्ति (Ablative), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (तीर्थे स्नानस्य वैभवम्)
मृतत्वम्death / the state of being dead
मृतत्वम्:
Karta (Subject of ‘abhūt’)
TypeNoun
Rootमृतत्व (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), एकवचन
अभूत्occurred/became
अभूत्:
Kriyā (Main verb)
TypeVerb
Rootभू (धातु)
Formलङ्-लकार (Imperfect, past), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन
यस्मात्because/from which
यस्मात्:
Hetu (Cause marker)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formसर्वनाम, पञ्चमी-विभक्ति-रूपेण अव्ययीभाव (relative-ablative used adverbially: ‘because/from which’)
अगस्त्यानुजजन्मनःof the birth/person who was Agastya’s younger brother
अगस्त्यानुजजन्मनः:
Sambandha (Genitive relation)
TypeNoun
Rootअगस्त्य (प्रातिपदिक) + अनुज (प्रातिपदिक) + जन्मन् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; बहुपद-तत्पुरुष (अगस्त्यस्य अनुजः तस्य जन्म)
Speaker
Narrator
Characters & Entities
A
AgastyaA
Agastya’s younger brotherS
Setu tīrtha (snāna)FAQs
The tīrtha’s sanctity, accessed through snāna and observance, is said to annihilate sorrow and bring the soul to its final release.
The same Setu mahātīrtha (Ekāntarāmanātha/Maṅgala context) whose snāna is proclaimed mokṣa-giving.
Tīrtha-snānā (ritual bathing) emphasized as the decisive act whose ‘vaibhava’ yields profound spiritual fruit.