Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 100

Devanagari script

उपपातकिनो ये च महापातकिनश्च ये । तेपि काशीं समासाद्य भविष्यंति गतैनसः

Transliteration

upapātakino ye ca mahāpātakinaśca ye | tepi kāśīṃ samāsādya bhaviṣyaṃti gatainasaḥ

Translation

Même ceux qui ont commis des fautes mineures et ceux qui ont commis de grands péchés : parvenus à Kāśī, eux aussi deviennent délivrés du péché.

Word by Word

• उपपातकिनः: minor sinners
• उपपातकिनः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: उपपातकिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन

• ये: who
• ये: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक

• च: and
• च: Discourse (Conjunction)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)

• महापातकिनः: great sinners
• महापातकिनः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: महा (प्रातिपदिक) + पातकिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; समासः—महान् पातकी (कर्मधारय)

• च: and
• च: Discourse (Conjunction)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)

• ये: who
• ये: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक

• ते: they
• ते: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन

• अपि: also/even
• अपि: Discourse (Particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, अप्यर्थे/समुच्चये (particle: also/even)

• काशीम्: Kāśī
• काशीम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: काशी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन

• समासाद्य: having reached
• समासाद्य: Purvakala (Prior action)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सम्-आ-√सद् (धातु) → समासाद्य (क्त्वान्त/अव्ययकृदन्त)
• Form: क्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (gerund), पूर्वकालिक क्रिया

• भविष्यन्ति: will become
• भविष्यन्ति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू (धातु)
• Form: लृट् (Simple Future), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन; परस्मैपद

• गतैनसः: free from sin (whose sin has gone)
• गतैनसः: Karta (Subject complement/कर्ता-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: गत (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √गम्) + एनस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; समासः—गतं एनः येषाम् (बहुव्रीहि)

Speaker

Śiva

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Pilgrims of all kinds—some burdened, some penitent—enter Kāśī’s sacred boundary; their dark karmic stains lift like smoke; the Ganga glows, and temple bells mark a new beginning.

Characters & Entities

• Kāśī (Vārāṇasī)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Kāśī is portrayed as exceptionally purifying—divine grace tied to sacred geography can cleanse even grave wrongdoing.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), revered as a sin-destroying kṣetra in the Skanda Purāṇa.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

The act emphasized is pilgrimage—‘reaching Kāśī’ (samāsādya); no specific dāna/snān/japa is stated in this verse.