Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 16

Devanagari script

चातुर्मास्ये नरः स्नानं प्रातरेव समाचरेत् । सर्वक्रतुफलं प्राप्य देववद्दिवि मोदते

Transliteration

cāturmāsye naraḥ snānaṃ prātareva samācaret | sarvakratuphalaṃ prāpya devavaddivi modate

Translation

Durant le Cāturmāsya, l’homme doit se baigner dès le matin. Ayant obtenu le fruit de tous les sacrifices, il se réjouit au ciel tel un dieu.

Word by Word

• चातुर्मास्ये: in the Cāturmāsya (four-month period)
• चातुर्मास्ये: अधिकरण (Locative/Place-Time)
• Type: Noun
• Root: चातुर्मास्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (7th/Locative), एकवचन; ‘चातुर्मास्य’ (cāturmāsya) = चतुर्माससम्बन्धि (pertaining to the four-month period)

• नरः: a man
• नरः: कर्ता (Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• स्नानम्: bathing
• स्नानम्: कर्म (Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्नान (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन

• प्रातर्: in the morning
• प्रातर्: क्रियाविशेषण (Adverbial)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: प्रातर् (अव्यय/प्रातिपदिक-निपातस्वरूप)
• Form: अव्यय; कालवाचक क्रियाविशेषण (temporal adverb)

• एव: indeed/only
• एव: निपात (Particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; अवधारणार्थक-निपात (particle of emphasis)

• समाचरेत्: should perform/practice
• समाचरेत्: क्रिया (Predicate)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम् + आ + चर् (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन

• सर्वक्रतुफलम्: the fruit of all sacrifices
• सर्वक्रतुफलम्: कर्म (Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सर्व + क्रतु + फल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः: क्रतूनां फलम् (fruit of all sacrifices)

• प्राप्य: having obtained
• प्राप्य: पूर्वकाल-क्रिया (Prior action)
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + आप् (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (Absolutive/Gerund) ‘प्राप्य’ = having obtained

• देववत्: like a god
• देववत्: क्रियाविशेषण (Adverbial)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: देववत् (अव्यय/तद्धित)
• Form: अव्यय; उपमानवाचक (comparative adverb) ‘like a god’

• दिवि: in heaven
• दिवि: अधिकरण (Locative)
• Type: Noun
• Root: दिव् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (7th/Locative), एकवचन

• मोदते: rejoices
• मोदते: क्रिया (Predicate)
• Type: Verb
• Root: मुद् (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), आत्मनेपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन

Speaker

Sūta (deduced; Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya narration typically via Sūta to sages)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Type: ghat

Visual Art Cues

Scene: At dawn in monsoon season, a devotee performs river/pond bathing with rising mist; above, symbolic sacrificial fires and celestial beings indicate ‘sarva-kratu-phala’; the bather later appears radiant in svarga.

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

A simple daily act—morning bathing in Cāturmāsya—can yield immense merit, comparable to great Vedic sacrifices.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it praises the practice of snāna during Cāturmāsya generally.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Prātaḥ-snāna (morning bath) during Cāturmāsya.