Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 25

Devanagari script

सप्तम्यां रविवारेण यस्त्वां पश्यति मानवः । तस्य रोग भयं माऽस्तु प्रसादात्तिमिरापह

Transliteration

saptamyāṃ ravivāreṇa yastvāṃ paśyati mānavaḥ | tasya roga bhayaṃ mā'stu prasādāttimirāpaha

Translation

Au septième jour lunaire, lorsqu’il tombe un dimanche, tout homme qui Te contemple—par Ta grâce, ô Dissipateur des ténèbres—qu’il soit sans crainte de maladie.

Word by Word

• saptamyām: on the seventh (lunar day)
• saptamyām: Adhikarana (Time/काल-अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saptamī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; तिथिवाचक

• ravi-vāreṇa: on Sunday
• ravi-vāreṇa: Adhikarana (Time/काल-निर्देश)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ravi (प्रातिपदिक) + vāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (रवेः वारः = Sunday)

• yaḥ: who
• yaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• tvām: you
• tvām: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन

• paśyati: sees
• paśyati: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: dṛś (दृश् धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन

• mānavaḥ: a human
• mānavaḥ: Karta (Subject apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mānava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• tasya: of him
• tasya: Sambandha (Genitive)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन

• roga-bhayam: fear of disease
• roga-bhayam: Karta (Subject of astu)
• Type: Noun
• Root: roga (प्रातिपदिक) + bhaya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (रोगस्य भयम् = fear of disease / disease-fear)

• mā: do not; let not
• mā: Pratiṣedha (Negation)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: mā (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निषेधार्थक-निपात (prohibitive particle)

• astu: be
• astu: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: as (अस् धातु)
• Form: लोट् (Imperative), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन

• prasādāt: by grace
• prasādāt: Hetu (Cause/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prasāda (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/Ablative), एकवचन

• timira-apaha: O remover of darkness
• timira-apaha: Sambodhana (Address)
• Type: Noun
• Root: timira (प्रातिपदिक) + apaha (अपह प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (तिमिरं अपहन्ति इति = remover of darkness)

Speaker

Sūrya (as the boon/result being voiced in context)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Āditya-darśana at Prabhāsa (Sunday-Saptamī)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Sūrya (and by extension the audience of the māhātmya)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee stands at dawn facing the rising sun on a Sunday Saptamī, hands raised in arghya; rays stream like golden threads, symbolically removing ‘timira’ and disease-fear.

Characters & Entities

• Sūrya
• Ravivāra
• Saptamī

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Right-time devotion (darśana on an auspicious tithi and weekday) is portrayed as yielding protective grace.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Within Prabhāsakṣetra’s narrative frame, Sūrya-darśana is celebrated as a merit-bearing act connected to the kṣetra.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Beholding (darśana) of Sūrya on Saptamī that falls on Ravivāra (Sunday) for freedom from fear of disease.