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Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 40

Devanagari script

महेश्वरो वा मधुकैटभारिर्हृद्याश्रितो ध्यानमयोऽद्वितीयः । अभेदबुद्ध्या परमार्तिहंता रिपुः स एवातिप्रियो भवेत्ततः

Transliteration

maheśvaro vā madhukaiṭabhārirhṛdyāśrito dhyānamayo'dvitīyaḥ | abhedabuddhyā paramārtihaṃtā ripuḥ sa evātipriyo bhavettataḥ

Translation

Qu’il soit Maheśvara ou le pourfendeur de Madhu et Kaiṭabha—demeurant dans le cœur, fait de méditation, l’Unique sans second—lorsqu’on le voit avec la pensée de non-différence (abheda-buddhi), il devient le destructeur de la suprême détresse. Ainsi, même un ennemi devient infiniment cher.

Word by Word
महेश्वरःMahēśvara
महेश्वरः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootमहेश्वर (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'Mahēśvara'
वाor
वा:
Sambandha (Particle/निपात)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootवा (अव्यय)
Formविकल्पार्थक-अव्यय (disjunctive particle: 'or')
मधुकैटभारिःslayer/enemy of Madhu and Kaiṭabha
मधुकैटभारिः:
Karta (Apposition/समानााधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootमधु (प्रातिपदिक) + कैटभ (प्रातिपदिक) + अरि (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'enemy of Madhu and Kaiṭabha' (मधुकैटभयोः अरिः)
हृदिin the heart
हृदि:
Adhikarana (Locus/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootहृद् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/locative), एकवचन — 'in the heart'
आश्रितःdwelling, resorting
आश्रितः:
Visheshana (Adjectival qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Root√श्रि (धातु) उपसर्ग: आ + क्त (कृदन्त)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'resorted to/dwelling'
ध्यानमयःmade of meditation
ध्यानमयः:
Visheshana (Adjectival qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootध्यान (प्रातिपदिक) + मय (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'consisting of meditation' (ध्यानमय)
अद्वितीयःwithout a second
अद्वितीयः:
Visheshana (Adjectival qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootअद्वितीय (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'without a second, unrivalled'
अभेदबुद्ध्याby non-dual understanding
अभेदबुद्ध्या:
Karana (Instrument/करण)
TypeNoun
Rootअभेद (प्रातिपदिक) + बुद्धि (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया, एकवचन — 'by the notion of non-difference' (अभेदस्य बुद्धिः)
परमार्तिहंताdestroyer of great suffering
परमार्तिहंता:
Visheshana (Adjectival qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootपरम (प्रातिपदिक) + आर्ति (प्रातिपदिक) + हन्तृ (प्रातिपदिक; √हन् + तृच्)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'destroyer of supreme distress' (परमा आर्तिः; तस्य हन्ता)
रिपुःan enemy
रिपुः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootरिपु (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'enemy'
सःhe
सः:
Karta (Correlative/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'he/that'
एवindeed
एव:
Sambandha (Particle/निपात)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव (अव्यय)
Formअवधारण-अव्यय (emphatic particle: 'indeed/only')
अतिप्रियःvery dear
अतिप्रियः:
Visheshana (Adjectival qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootअति (अव्यय/उपसर्गवत्) + प्रिय (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — 'very dear'
भवेत्would become
भवेत्:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√भू (धातु)
Formविधिलिङ् (optative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन — 'would become/should be'
ततःtherefore
ततः:
Hetu/Anantarya (Result/sequence)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootततः (अव्यय)
Formतस्मात्-अर्थे अव्यय (consequential adverb: 'therefore/then')
Speaker

Narrative voice / doctrinal verse (speaker not explicit)

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Brāhmaṇas (outer); Umā/participants in the inner narrative

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A contemplative tableau: Śiva and Viṣṇu appear as two iconographic forms dissolving into a single luminous presence seated in the heart-lotus; an erstwhile enemy bows, transformed by non-dual insight.

Characters & Entities
M
Maheśvara (Śiva)
M
Madhukaiṭabhāri (Viṣṇu)
A
Abheda-buddhi

FAQs

Seeing the Divine with abheda-buddhi (non-dual understanding) dissolves hostility and suffering; the One in the heart is beyond sectarian division.

No single tirtha is named in this verse; it serves as a doctrinal centerpiece within the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra Māhātmya / Cāturmāsya teaching frame.

Meditative worship (dhyāna) on the indwelling advitīya reality is implied, rather than an external rite.

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