Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 44

Devanagari script

परं यथा समायांति वंशजस्याश्रयं प्रति । तथा तेऽहं प्रव क्ष्यामि न तथा संशयो भवेत्

Transliteration

paraṃ yathā samāyāṃti vaṃśajasyāśrayaṃ prati | tathā te'haṃ prava kṣyāmi na tathā saṃśayo bhavet

Translation

Mais comment ils en viennent à dépendre du soutien de leurs descendants, je te l’expliquerai, afin qu’il ne demeure aucun doute.

Word by Word

• परम्: furthermore; moreover
• परम्: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial modifier)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय; क्रियाविशेषण (adverb)

• यथा: as; in the manner that
• यथा: Sambandha (Correlative marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; उपमान/यथार्थबोधक (correlative adverb: 'as')

• समायान्ति: they come; they arrive
• समायान्ति: Kriyā (Verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-आ-या (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), परस्मैपद; प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), बहुवचन (plural)

• वंशजस्य: of the descendant
• वंशजस्य: Sambandha (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वंशज (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन; समासः—वंश+ज (वंशात् जातः)

• आश्रयम्: refuge; shelter
• आश्रयम्: Karma (Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: आश्रय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन

• प्रति: towards
• प्रति: Karma-pravacaniya (towards)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: प्रति (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; उपसर्ग/निपात (preposition-like: 'towards')

• तथा: so; thus
• तथा: Sambandha (Correlative marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; सहसम्बन्धबोधक (correlative: 'so/thus')

• ते: to you
• ते: Sampradāna (Recipient)
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम; चतुर्थी (4th/Dative), एकवचन (enclitic form)

• अहम्: I
• अहम्: Karta (Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम; प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• प्रवक्ष्यामि: I shall tell; I will explain
• प्रवक्ष्यामि: Kriyā (Verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र-√वच् (धातु)
• Form: लृट् (Simple Future), परस्मैपद; उत्तमपुरुष (1st), एकवचन

• न: not
• न: Pratiṣedha (Negation)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निषेध (negation particle)

• तथा: thus; in that way
• तथा: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial modifier)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; प्रकारवाचक (in that way)

• संशयः: doubt
• संशयः: Karta (Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: संशय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• भवेत्: may be; should arise
• भवेत्: Kriyā (Verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √भू (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), परस्मैपद; प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन

Speaker

Bhartṛyajña (continuing, implied by context)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: rājā / questioner

Visual Art Cues

Scene: The teacher announces: ‘I will explain how they depend on descendants, so doubt will not remain,’ setting a tone of impending revelation.

Characters & Entities

• Bhartṛyajña

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Beyond karma, Purāṇic dharma also emphasizes the sustaining role of lineage and descendants in the post-death condition of the departed.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

No site is mentioned in this verse; it introduces a doctrinal explanation within a tīrtha-glorifying section.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Not explicitly, though the theme points toward śrāddha, piṇḍa, and related ancestral rites.