Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 120

Devanagari script

एकादशीं समासाद्य प्रबोधकरणीं मम । बिंदुतीर्थकृतस्नानो रात्रौ जागरणान्वितः

Transliteration

ekādaśīṃ samāsādya prabodhakaraṇīṃ mama | biṃdutīrthakṛtasnāno rātrau jāgaraṇānvitaḥ

Translation

Parvenu à l’Ekādaśī qui accomplit Mon éveil, après s’être baigné à Bindu-tīrtha, il demeure en veille toute la nuit.

Word by Word

• एकादशीम्: Ekādaśī (the 11th lunar day)
• एकादशीम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: एकादशी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; कर्म

• समासाद्य: having reached/observed
• समासाद्य: Purvakala (Prior action/पूर्वकाल)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सम्-आ-√सद् (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund), अव्ययभाव; ‘having reached/attained’

• प्रबोध-करणीम्: that which causes awakening
• प्रबोध-करणीम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रबोध (प्रातिपदिक) + करणी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; विशेषण; समासः—तत्पुरुषः (प्रबोधं करोति इति)

• मम: my
• मम: Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th), एकवचन; सर्वनाम; सम्बन्ध (genitive)

• बिन्दु-तीर्थ-कृत-स्नानः: one who has bathed at Bindu-tīrtha
• बिन्दु-तीर्थ-कृत-स्नानः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बिन्दु (प्रातिपदिक) + तीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक) + कृत (कृदन्त; √कृ (धातु)) + स्नान (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; विशेषण; कृदन्त—क्त ‘कृत’; समासः—तत्पुरुषः (बिन्दुतीर्थे कृतं स्नानं येन)

• रात्रौ: at night
• रात्रौ: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: रात्रि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; अधिकरण

• जागरण-अन्वितः: endowed with wakefulness (keeping vigil)
• जागरण-अन्वितः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: जागरण (प्रातिपदिक) + अन्वित (कृदन्त; √इ (धातु) with anu-; ‘endowed/connected’)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; विशेषण; समासः—तत्पुरुषः (जागरणेन अन्वितः)

Speaker

Skanda (deduced Kāśīkhaṇḍa dialogue style: Skanda to Agastya)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Bindu-tīrtha

Type: kund

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Before dawn on Ekādaśī, a devotee bathes at Bindu-tīrtha; later, at night, lamps and incense burn as devotees keep vigil with cymbals and chanting; the sense is of ‘awakening’—both of the Lord and of the devotee’s consciousness.

Characters & Entities

• Ekādaśī
• Prabodha
• Bindu Tīrtha
• Jāgaraṇa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Devotional discipline—snāna at a tīrtha and night-long vigil on Ekādaśī—becomes a direct means of divine prabodha (spiritual awakening).

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Bindu Tīrtha (within the sacred geography of Kāśī).

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Observing Ekādaśī, bathing at Bindu Tīrtha, and performing night vigil (jāgaraṇa).