Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 32

Devanagari script

अंबरीष उवाच । यदि तुष्टोऽसि भगवन्रूपेणानेन माधव । ममाश्रमे त्वं देवेश सदा सन्निहितो भव

Transliteration

aṃbarīṣa uvāca | yadi tuṣṭo'si bhagavanrūpeṇānena mādhava | mamāśrame tvaṃ deveśa sadā sannihito bhava

Translation

Ambārīṣa dit : Si Tu es satisfait, ô Seigneur Mādhava, de cette forme, alors, ô Dieu des dieux, demeure toujours présent dans mon ermitage.

Word by Word

• अंबरीषः: Ambarīṣa
• अंबरीषः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अंबरीष (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — masculine nominative singular

• उवाच: said
• उवाच: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच् (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (परोक्षभूत/Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद — perfect, 3rd person singular

• यदि: if
• यदि: Sambandha (Condition/शर्त)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यदि (अव्यय)
• Form: शर्त-अव्यय (conditional)

• तुष्टः: pleased
• तुष्टः: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तुष्ट (प्रातिपदिक; √तुष् + क्त)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — masculine nominative singular; विशेषण of implied ‘त्वम्’

• असि: are
• असि: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: अस् (धातु)
• Form: लट् (वर्तमान/Present), मध्यमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद — present, 2nd person singular

• भगवन्: O Lord
• भगवन्: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भगवत् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन, एकवचन — masculine vocative singular

• रूपेण: by (this) form
• रूपेण: Karana (Instrument/Means/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: रूप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया, एकवचन — neuter instrumental singular

• अनेन: by this
• अनेन: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया, एकवचन — demonstrative instrumental singular; विशेषण of ‘रूपेण’

• माधव: O Mādhava
• माधव: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: माधव (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन, एकवचन — masculine vocative singular

• मम: my
• मम: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी, एकवचन — pronoun genitive singular

• आश्रमे: in (my) hermitage
• आश्रमे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: आश्रम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन — masculine locative singular

• त्वम्: you
• त्वम्: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्वद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: प्रथमा, एकवचन — pronoun nominative singular

• देवेश: O Lord of gods
• देवेश: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: देव (प्रातिपदिक) + ईश (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन, एकवचन — masculine vocative singular

• सदा: always
• सदा: Kala (Time/काल)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सदा (अव्यय)
• Form: कालवाचक-अव्यय (adverb of time)

• सन्निहितः: present / near
• सन्निहितः: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सम्+नि+धा (धातु)
• Form: कृदन्त (क्त-प्रत्यय), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — past passive participle used adjectivally; ‘present/nearby’

• भव: be
• भव: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू (धातु)
• Form: लोट् (आज्ञार्थ/Imperative), मध्यमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद — imperative, 2nd person singular

Speaker

Ambārīṣa

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Ambārīṣāśrama (within Arbuda-kṣetra)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Ambārīṣa petitions Mādhava: the king in añjali, eyes uplifted; Viṣṇu in the requested form, compassionate and radiant, standing or seated within the hermitage clearing.

Characters & Entities

• Ambārīṣa
• Mādhava (Viṣṇu)
• Deveśa (Viṣṇu)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Devotion seeks not only teaching but enduring divine presence—turning a personal āśrama into a sacred locus of worship.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse gestures toward the sanctification of Ambārīṣa’s āśrama as a worship-site, within the Arbuda-khaṇḍa sacred geography.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Implicitly, establishing continuous divine presence through worship and residence of the deity’s form.