Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 36

Devanagari script

त्यागी तस्मान्न दुःखी स्यान्नर्वैरो निरवग्रहः । अत्यागी जन्ममरणे प्राप्नोतीह पुनःपुनः

Transliteration

tyāgī tasmānna duḥkhī syānnarvairo niravagrahaḥ | atyāgī janmamaraṇe prāpnotīha punaḥpunaḥ

Translation

Ainsi, le renonçant n’est pas dans la peine : sans inimitié et sans saisie. Mais celui qui ne renonce pas rencontre ici la naissance et la mort, encore et encore.

Word by Word

• त्यागी: a renouncer
• त्यागी: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्यागिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; agent noun ‘renouncer’

• तस्मात्: therefore
• तस्मात्: Hetu (Reason)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तस्मात् इति निपातवत्—हेतौ/तस्मादर्थे (therefore/from that reason)

• न: not
• न: Pratishedha (Negation)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (अव्यय)
• Form: निषेध-अव्यय (negation)

• दुःखी: unhappy/sorrowful
• दुःखी: Karta (Subject complement)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दुःखिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; predicate adjective

• स्यात्: would be/should be
• स्यात्: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √अस् (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• नरः: a man
• नरः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• वैरः: enmity
• वैरः: Karta (Subject complement)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वैर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; predicate noun

• निरवग्रहः: unobstructed/without contention
• निरवग्रहः: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: निर्- (उपसर्ग) + अवग्रह (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; adjective meaning ‘without obstruction/without contention’

• अत्यागी: one who does not renounce
• अत्यागी: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अ-त्यागिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; ‘non-renouncer’

• जन्ममरणे: in birth and death
• जन्ममरणे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: जन्म (प्रातिपदिक) + मरण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, द्विवचन/एकवचन-रूपेण समाहारद्वन्द्वस्य सप्तमी; ‘in birth and death’

• प्राप्नोति: attains/undergoes
• प्राप्नोति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √आप् (धातु) + प्र (उपसर्ग)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• इह: here (in this world)
• इह: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इह (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक-अव्यय (adverb)

• पुनःपुनः: again and again
• पुनःपुनः: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुनः + पुनः (अव्यय)
• Form: आवृत्ति-अव्यय (reduplication adverb)

Speaker

Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Two contrasted figures: a tyāgī walking lightly with empty hands, calm face, no enemies around; beside him an atyāgī burdened with bundles, chased by the wheel of saṃsāra (birth-death cycle).

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Renunciation brings peace and non-hostility, while clinging sustains the cycle of repeated birth and death.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

No site is mentioned; the teaching concerns liberation (mokṣa) through tyāga.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No formal rite; it prescribes a lifestyle principle—tyāga (letting go).