Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 20

Devanagari script

त्रिष्वेतेषु च यः स्नाति चतुर्विंशतिभाग्भवेत्

Transliteration

triṣveteṣu ca yaḥ snāti caturviṃśatibhāgbhavet

Translation

Quiconque se baigne dans ces trois villages/tīrthas sacrés reçoit une part de mérite multipliée par vingt-quatre.

Word by Word

• त्रिषु: in (these) three
• त्रिषु: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: त्रि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: त्रिलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), बहुवचन; संख्याविशेषण

• एतेषु: in these
• एतेषु: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: एतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, बहुवचन; सर्वनाम (pronoun)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चय-अव्यय (conjunction)

• यः: whoever
• यः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; सम्बन्धबोधक-सर्वनाम (relative pronoun)

• स्नाति: bathes
• स्नाति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्ना (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन

• चतुर्विंशतिभाक्: a sharer of twenty-four parts
• चतुर्विंशतिभाक्: Kartṛ-predicative (Subject complement)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चतुर्विंशति (प्रातिपदिक) + भागिन्/भाज् (प्रातिपदिक ‘भाक्’)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; ‘भाग्/भाक्’ = ‘having a share’ (possessive adjective)

• भवेत्: would become
• भवेत्: Kriya (Result/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन

Speaker

Skanda (deduced)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kalpagrāma–Śāligrāma–Nandigrāma triad

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: implied brāhmaṇa audience (dvija-sattamāḥ from prior verse)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Pilgrims bathing successively at three village water-bodies, with a priest guiding sankalpa; a visual motif of ‘three dips’ and ‘counted merit’.

Characters & Entities

• Kalpagrāma
• Śāligrāma
• Nandigrāma

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Ritual bathing at specially praised locales is framed as an intensified means of purification and merit.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The triad of sacred villages mentioned just before: Kalpagrāma, Śāligrāma, and Nandigrāma.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Snāna (bathing) in/at these three sacred places.