Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 8
Devanagari script
ततःप्रभृति संजातमर्बुदेऽस्मिंस्त्रिपुष्करम्
Transliteration
tataḥprabhṛti saṃjātamarbude'smiṃstripuṣkaram
Translation
Dès lors, Tripuṣkara prit naissance ici même, en cet Arbuda.
Word by Word
ततःfrom then
ततः:
Kala (Time/काल)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootततः (अव्यय)
Formअपादान/क्रमवाचक-अव्यय (from then)
प्रभृतिonwards, since
प्रभृति:
Kala (Time/काल)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootप्रभृति (अव्यय)
Formआदिवाचक-अव्यय (since, starting from)
संजातम्arose, came into being
संजातम्:
Kriya (Predicate/विधेय)
TypeAdjective
Rootसम्-जन् (धातु) → संजात (कृदन्त)
Formभूतकृदन्त (क्त), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विधेय-विशेषण (त्रिपुष्करस्य)
अर्बुदेin Arbuda (mountain/region)
अर्बुदे:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootअर्बुद (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन
अस्मिन्in this
अस्मिन्:
Adhikarana (Location qualifier/अधिकरण-विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootइदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; सर्वनाम; विशेषण (अर्बुदे)
त्रिपुष्करम्Tripuṣkara (the three Puṣkaras)
त्रिपुष्करम्:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootत्रि (संख्या) + पुष्कर (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; द्विगु-समास (त्रीणि पुष्कराणि)
Speaker
Narrator (contextual)
Tirtha Mahatmya
Tirtha: Tripuṣkara
Type: kshetra
Visual Art Cues
Scene: A caption-like tableau: the Arbuda landscape with a newly named Tripuṣkara lake, marked as ‘from that time onward’.
Characters & Entities
A
ArbudaT
TripuṣkaraFAQs
Purāṇas ground holiness in sacred history—places become tīrthas through divine events remembered in tradition.
Tripuṣkara in the Arbuda region.
None; it is an etiological (origin) declaration.