Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 63

Devanagari script

कोकावराहमभ्यर्च्य तत्र नो जन्मभाग्जनः । अपि कोकावराहाच्च दिलीपेश्वरसन्निधौ

Transliteration

kokāvarāhamabhyarcya tatra no janmabhāgjanaḥ | api kokāvarāhācca dilīpeśvarasannidhau

Translation

Après y avoir vénéré Kokāvarāha, l’être humain ne renaît plus. Puis, depuis Kokāvarāha, (il se rend) en la présence de Dilīpeśvara.

Word by Word

• कोकावराहम्: Kokāvarāha
• कोकावराहम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कोका-वराह (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/कर्म), एकवचन — “Kokā-varāha (a boar named Kokā/associated with Kokā)”; समासः कर्मधारय/नामधारय-प्रायः

• अभ्यर्च्य: having worshipped
• अभ्यर्च्य: Purvakala-kriya (Gerund/पूर्वकालक्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: अभि-√अर्च् (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund), अव्ययभाव — “having worshipped”

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (देशवाचक) — “there”

• नः: of us
• नः: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), बहुवचन — enclitic “of us/our”

• जन्मभाग्: one who is subject to birth
• जन्मभाग्: Visheshana (Adjectival/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: जन्म-भागिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/कर्ता), एकवचन — विशेषणम् (जनः) “one who partakes of birth”; समासः षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (जन्मनः भागी)

• जनः: a person
• जनः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: जन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/कर्ता), एकवचन — “person”

• अपि: even/also
• अपि: Sambandha (Particle/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (निपात) — “also/even”

• कोकावराहात्: from Kokāvarāha
• कोकावराहात्: Apadana (Ablative/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कोका-वराह (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/अपादान), एकवचन — “from Kokāvarāha”

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Conjunction/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (समुच्चयबोधक)

• दिलीपेश्वरसन्निधौ: in the presence of Dilīpeśvara
• दिलीपेश्वरसन्निधौ: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: दिलीप-ईश्वर-सन्निधि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग (सन्निधि—पुं), सप्तमी (7th/अधिकरण), एकवचन — “in the presence of Dilīpeśvara”; समासः षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (दिलीपेश्वरस्य सन्निधौ)

Speaker

Skanda (deduced: Kāśī-khaṇḍa commonly Skanda speaking to Agastya)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kokāvarāha Tīrtha (with onward movement to Dilīpeśvara)

Type: ghat

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: null

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee offers flowers and lamp to a Varāha shrine at Kokāvarāha; a path/ghāṭa steps lead onward where a Śiva-liṅga shrine labeled Dilīpeśvara awaits; the pilgrim’s journey is shown as a continuous sacred circuit.

Characters & Entities

• Kokāvarāha
• Dilīpeśvara

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Devotion (arcana) at a Kāśī tīrtha is portrayed as a direct cause for liberation from repeated birth.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Kokāvarāha (tīrtha/deity), with onward movement toward Dilīpeśvara’s vicinity.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Abhyarcana/arcana—formal worship of Kokāvarāha.