Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 54

Devanagari script

अनुग्रहश्च क्रियतां तीर्थराजस्य मानद

Transliteration

anugrahaśca kriyatāṃ tīrtharājasya mānada

Translation

Ô dispensateur d’honneur, accorde ta grâce au Roi des Tīrtha, le plus éminent des gués sacrés.

Word by Word

• अनुग्रहः: favor/grace
• अनुग्रहः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनुग्रह (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/कर्ता), एकवचन

• च: and
• च: Samuccaya (Coordination)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयार्थक (conjunction)

• क्रियताम्: let (it) be done
• क्रियताम्: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √कृ (धातु)
• Form: लोट् (Imperative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; आत्मनेपदम्; कर्मणि-प्रयोगः (passive: ‘let it be done’)

• तीर्थराजस्य: of the king of tīrthas
• तीर्थराजस्य: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थ + राज (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (तीर्थानां राजा)

• मानद: O giver of honor
• मानद: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मानद (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th/vocative), एकवचन

Speaker

Dharma (personified), continuing the address

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Tīrtharāja (epithet; specific identification not explicit in the isolated verse)

Type: ghat

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: ‘Mānad’ (bestower of honor) addressed

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A supplicant requests ‘anugraha’ for the ‘King of Tīrthas’: a majestic river-ford/ghāṭa or radiant sacred pool is personified as a crowned tīrtha-deity receiving a blessing gesture from a divine figure titled ‘mānad’ (bestower of honor).

Characters & Entities

• Dharma
• Tīrtharāja

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Sacred places flourish by divine anugraha (grace), and honoring them is part of Purāṇic dharma.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

A ‘Tīrtharāja’ is invoked; in this chapter the narrative culminates in Stambhatīrtha’s fame and merit.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No specific rite here; it is a request for anugraha that enables the tīrtha’s renown and fruit.