Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 3

Devanagari script

शिलाखंडा च या देवी तथा सौभाग्यकूपिका । यथा तत्र समुत्पन्ना तथाऽस्माकं प्रकीर्तय

Transliteration

śilākhaṃḍā ca yā devī tathā saubhāgyakūpikā | yathā tatra samutpannā tathā'smākaṃ prakīrtaya

Translation

Et dis-nous aussi comment y apparurent la déesse Śilākhaṇḍā et le puits nommé Saubhāgya-kūpikā ; raconte-le-nous tel que cela advint.

Word by Word

• शिलाखण्डा: Śilākhaṇḍā (name/title)
• शिलाखण्डा: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: शिला + खण्ड (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/nominative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (शिलायाः खण्डः/शिलाखण्डः) नामरूपेण

• च: and
• च: Samuccaya (Connector/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (समुच्चयबोधक conjunction)

• या: who, which
• या: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक सर्वनाम (relative pronoun)

• देवी: goddess
• देवी: Apposition (Samānādhikaraṇa/समानाधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: देवी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• तथा: likewise, and also
• तथा: Samuccaya/Prakāra (Correlative/प्रकार)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (प्रकार/समुच्चयवाचक): ‘तद्वत/likewise’

• सौभाग्यकूपिका: Saubhāgyakūpikā (name/title)
• सौभाग्यकूपिका: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सौभाग्य + कूपिका (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (सौभाग्यस्य कूपिका) नाम

• यथा: how, in what manner
• यथा: Sambandha (Correlative/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (प्रकारवाचक/correlative)

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikaraṇa (Locative sense/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (देशवाचक/adverb of place): ‘तस्मिन् स्थाने/there’

• समुत्पन्ना: arose, came into being
• समुत्पन्ना: Kriyā (Predicate as participle/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्+उत्+पद् (धातु) (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; ‘उत्पन्ना/ arisen’

• तथा: so, in the same way
• तथा: Sambandha (Correlative/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (तुल्यतावाचक/correlative): ‘तद्वत/so’

• अस्माकम्: of us
• अस्माकम्: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th/genitive), बहुवचन; उत्तमपुरुष-सर्वनाम

• प्रकीर्तय: proclaim, narrate
• प्रकीर्तय: Kriyā (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र+कीर्त् (धातु)
• Form: लोट् (आज्ञार्थ/imperative), मध्यमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद

Speaker

Ṛṣis (Sages)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Saubhāgya-kūpikā; Śilākhaṇḍā-devī sthāna (as named)

Type: kund

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Ṛṣis (assembly)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: The sages specifically ask for the origin of Śilākhaṇḍā Devī and the Saubhāgya-kūpikā well—foregrounding a devī icon and a sacred water-source.

Characters & Entities

• Śilākhaṇḍā Devī
• Saubhāgya-kūpikā (sacred well)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Purāṇic sacred geography is anchored in origin-legends that reveal divine presence in specific stones, wells, and localized forms of the Goddess.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Saubhāgya-kūpikā (a sacred well) and the locale where Śilākhaṇḍā Devī manifested, within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya setting.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None explicitly; the verse requests the māhātmya/origin account that typically grounds later prescriptions.