Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 32

Devanagari script

षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि स्वर्गे वसति भूमिदः । आच्छेत्ता चानुमंता च तान्येव नरकं व्रजेत्

Transliteration

ṣaṣṭivarṣasahasrāṇi svarge vasati bhūmidaḥ | ācchettā cānumaṃtā ca tānyeva narakaṃ vrajet

Translation

Soixante mille ans, le donateur de terre demeure au ciel; mais celui qui s’en empare et celui qui approuve cette prise vont en enfer pour la même durée.

Word by Word

• षष्टि-वर्ष-सहस्राणि: sixty thousand years
• षष्टि-वर्ष-सहस्राणि: Kāla-adhikarana (Duration/कालाधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: षष्टि (प्रातिपदिक) + वर्ष (प्रातिपदिक) + सहस्र (प्रातिपदिक); षष्टि-वर्ष-सहस्र (समास)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; कालपरिमाणवाचक (accusative of duration)

• स्वर्गे: in heaven
• स्वर्गे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्वर्ग (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन

• वसति: dwells
• वसति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: वस् (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार, परस्मैपद, प्रथम-पुरुष, एकवचन

• भूमिदः: the giver of land
• भूमिदः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भूमि + द (प्रातिपदिक); भूमि-द (समास)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; (भूमिं ददाति इति) भूमिदाता

• आच्छेत्ता: the one who seizes/appropriates
• आच्छेत्ता: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: आ-छिद् (धातु)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; कर्तृवाचक कृदन्त (तृच्/तार्-प्रत्ययार्थ: agent noun)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयार्थक

• अनुमन्ता: the approver/consenter
• अनुमन्ता: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनु-√मन् (धातु)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; कर्तृवाचक कृदन्त (agent noun: approver/consenter)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयार्थक

• तानि: those (persons)
• तानि: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; सर्वनाम

• एव: indeed
• एव: Sambandha (Emphasis/अवधारण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; अवधारणार्थक

• नरकम्: hell
• नरकम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नरक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• व्रजेत्: would go
• व्रजेत्: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: व्रज् (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), परस्मैपद, प्रथम-पुरुष, एकवचन

Speaker

Unspecified in excerpt (within Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya narration)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A radiant donor ascends toward svarga while, in a contrasting panel, a land-seizer and an approving witness are dragged toward naraka; a boundary-stone and deed-scroll symbolize the donated land.

Characters & Entities

• Svarga
• Naraka
• Bhūmi-dāna

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Protecting legitimate gifts is dharma; violating a land-gift brings severe karmic consequence.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The teaching is part of Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya, where dharmic giving is upheld as sacred practice connected to Prabhāsa.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

It reinforces the sanctity of bhūmi-dāna: do not seize donated land, and do not consent to such seizure.