Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 156

Devanagari script

पृथिव्यां यानि तीर्थानि ह्यासमुद्रसरांसि च । बालमण्डनके तीर्थ आगमिष्यंति तद्दिने

Transliteration

pṛthivyāṃ yāni tīrthāni hyāsamudrasarāṃsi ca | bālamaṇḍanake tīrtha āgamiṣyaṃti taddine

Translation

Tous les tīrtha de la terre—et même ceux liés aux mers et aux lacs—viendront au tīrtha de Bālamaṇḍanaka en ce jour même.

Word by Word

• पृथिव्याम्: on the earth
• पृथिव्याम्: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृथिवी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन

• यानि: which (things)
• यानि: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc. 1st/2nd), बहुवचन

• तीर्थानि: pilgrimage places
• तीर्थानि: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc. 1st/2nd), बहुवचन

• हि: indeed
• हि: Sambandha (Discourse particle/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि (अव्यय)
• Form: निपात (particle/emphasis)

• आ: up to, including
• आ: Sambandha (Modifier/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: आ (अव्यय)
• Form: उपसर्ग/अव्यय (preverb/adverbial prefix; here with following list: ‘up to/including’)

• समुद्र: ocean
• समुद्र: Sambandha (Compound member/समासाङ्ग)
• Type: Noun
• Root: समुद्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc. 1st/2nd), एकवचन (समासाङ्ग/compound member)

• सरांसि: lakes
• सरांसि: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सरस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc. 1st/2nd), बहुवचन

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

• बालमण्डनके: at Bālamaṇḍanaka (place)
• बालमण्डनके: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: बालमण्डनक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग/पुंलिङ्ग (स्थलनाम), सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन

• तीर्थे: at the tīrtha
• तीर्थे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन

• आगमिष्यन्ति: will come
• आगमिष्यन्ति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ√गम् (धातु)
• Form: लृट्-लकार (Simple Future), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन; परस्मैपद

• तत्: on that
• तत्: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; ‘दिने’ इति विशेषण

• दिने: day
• दिने: Adhikarana (Time/काल-अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: दिन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन

Speaker

Unspecified (deduced: narrator declaring a convergence of sacred geographies)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Bālamaṇḍanaka

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A luminous tīrtha-pool/ford labeled Bālamaṇḍanaka, while personified rivers, seas, and lake-deities arrive as radiant streams and vāhana-bearing divinities, converging into one sanctified waterbody.

Characters & Entities

• Bālamaṇḍanaka tīrtha
• All tīrthas
• Seas (samudra)
• Lakes/ponds (saras)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

A specially sanctified time can make one sacred place equivalent to all tīrthas, concentrating pilgrimage merit into a single observance.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Bālamaṇḍanaka tīrtha, portrayed as receiving the presence/merit of all other tīrthas on the designated day.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

The verse implies visiting and worshipping at Bālamaṇḍanaka on the specified auspicious day (from the preceding verse) to gain the combined merit of all tīrthas.