Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 47
Devanagari script
द्वादशमे चैव कन्या स्याद्भर्तृसंयुता
Transliteration
dvādaśame caiva kanyā syādbhartṛsaṃyutā
Translation
À la douzième année, une jeune fille sera déjà unie à un époux.
Word by Word
द्वादशमेin the twelfth (year/age)
द्वादशमे:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeAdjective
Rootद्वादशम (प्रातिपदिक; द्वादश + म)
Formपुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; क्रमवाचक विशेषण (ordinal)
चand
च:
Sambandha/Connector (सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; समुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)
एवindeed; just
एव:
Sambandha/Connector (सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; अवधारणार्थक निपात (emphatic particle)
कन्याa maiden; girl
कन्या:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootकन्या (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन
स्यात्should be; would be
स्यात्:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootअस् (धातु)
Formविधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद
भर्तृसंयुताjoined with a husband; married
भर्तृसंयुता:
Karta-Predicative (कर्ता-विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootभर्तृ-सम्-युत (प्रातिपदिक; भर्तृ + संयुत)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; विशेषण (कन्या इत्यस्य)
Speaker
Unspecified (Purāṇic narrator within Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya; deduced as a narrator describing Kali-yuga signs)
Visual Art Cues
Scene: A brief, stark vignette: a child-bride motif presented not as celebration but as ominous sign of age’s disorder; elders appear anxious; a temple silhouette stands as moral witness.
Characters & Entities
K
Kali-yugaFAQs
It presents early marriage as one among the disruptive signs of Kali-yuga, underscoring the broader theme of social instability and the need for dharmic steadiness.
None is named in this verse.
None; it is a sign-description.