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Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 14

Devanagari script

परदारकृतं यच्च मात्रापि च समं कृतम् । क्षालयिष्यति तत्पापं स्नापितं पूजितं परैः

Transliteration

paradārakṛtaṃ yacca mātrāpi ca samaṃ kṛtam | kṣālayiṣyati tatpāpaṃ snāpitaṃ pūjitaṃ paraiḥ

Translation

Même le péché né de l’adultère, et même celui aussi lourd qu’une faute envers sa mère : lorsque ce (liṅga) est baigné et honoré selon le rite, ce péché est lavé.

Word by Word
परदारकृतम्done with another’s wife
परदारकृतम्:
Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootपर-दार-कृत (प्रातिपदिक; पर + दार + कृत)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया/प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past passive participle used adjectivally; qualifying पापम् understood)
यत्whatever
यत्:
Sambandha (Relative/सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन (Neuter, Nom/Acc, Singular; relative pronoun)
चand
च:
Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formसमुच्चय-बोधक-अव्यय (conjunction)
मात्राby measure, even by a little
मात्रा:
Karaṇa (Measure/करण)
TypeNoun
Rootमात्रा (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन (Feminine, Instrumental, Singular)
अपिeven
अपि:
Sambandha (Particle/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअपि (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; अपि-कार (particle: even/also)
चand
च:
Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formसमुच्चय-बोधक-अव्यय (conjunction)
समम्equally, to the same extent
समम्:
Kriya-visheṣaṇa (Manner/क्रियाविशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootसम (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेषणम् (Neuter, Accusative, Singular; adverbial-adjective ‘equally’)
कृतम्done, committed
कृतम्:
Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootकृ (धातु)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (PPP)
क्षालयिष्यतिwill wash away
क्षालयिष्यति:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootक्षल् (धातु) + णिच् (causative)
Formलृट्-लकार (Future), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद; णिजन्त (causative)
तत्that
तत्:
Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेषणम् (Neuter, Accusative, Singular; qualifying पापम्)
पापम्sin
पापम्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootपाप (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन (Neuter, Accusative, Singular)
स्नापितम्(when it is) bathed
स्नापितम्:
Kriya-visheṣaṇa (Condition/क्रियाविशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootस्ना (धातु) + णिच्
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त; णिजन्त (PPP; ‘having been bathed/caused to be bathed’)
पूजितम्(when it is) worshipped
पूजितम्:
Kriya-visheṣaṇa (Condition/क्रियाविशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootपूज् (धातु)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (PPP)
परैःby others
परैः:
Karta (Agent in passive/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootपर (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति, बहुवचन (Masculine, Instrumental, Plural)
Speaker

Śiva (implied, continuing the merit statement)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Yājñavalkyeśvara at Hāṭakeśvara

Type: temple

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A penitent devotee, burdened by grave sin, witnesses the liṅga being bathed and worshipped; the abhiṣeka waters are depicted as washing away dark stains that dissolve into light around the sanctum.

Characters & Entities
Ś
Śiva
L
Liṅga

FAQs

Śiva’s grace accessed through liṅga worship is portrayed as a powerful means of purification even from heavy moral transgressions.

The Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra milieu in the Nāgara Khaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya (Yājñavalkyeśvara narrative).

Ritual bathing (abhiṣeka) and worship (pūjā) of the liṅga as a purificatory act (prāyaścitta).

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