Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 29

Devanagari script

एकादश्यां रविदिने स्नात्वा संनिहिता जले । आदिनारायणं पूज्य मुच्यते भवबन्धनात्

Transliteration

ekādaśyāṃ ravidine snātvā saṃnihitā jale | ādinārāyaṇaṃ pūjya mucyate bhavabandhanāt

Translation

Le jour d’Ekādaśī, lorsqu’il tombe un dimanche, après s’être baigné dans les eaux où demeure la Présence sacrée et avoir vénéré Ādinārāyaṇa, on est délivré des liens du devenir mondain.

Word by Word

• एकादश्याम्: on Ekādaśī
• एकादश्याम्: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: एकादशी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (7th/Locative), एकवचन (Singular)

• रविदिने: on Sunday (day of Ravi)
• रविदिने: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: रवि-दिन (प्रातिपदिक; रवि + दिन)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (7th/Locative), एकवचन (Singular)

• स्नात्वा: having bathed
• स्नात्वा: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial to main verb/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √स्ना (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय-क्रियाविशेषण (gerund/absolutive); ‘having bathed’

• संनिहिता: (she is) present/nearby
• संनिहिता: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सम्-नि-√धा (धातु)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular); क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past participle) — ‘present/nearby’ (understood subject: नदी/सा)

• जले: in the water
• जले: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: जल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (7th/Locative), एकवचन (Singular)

• आदिनारायणम्: Ādi-Nārāyaṇa
• आदिनारायणम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: आदि-नारायण (प्रातिपदिक; आदि + नारायण)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन (Singular)

• पूज्य: having worshipped
• पूज्य: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial to main verb/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √पूज् (धातु)
• Form: ल्यप्/य-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय-क्रियाविशेषण (gerundive/absolutive sense: ‘having worshipped’); used as indeclinable in sense of kṛtvā

• मुच्यते: is liberated
• मुच्यते: Kriyā (Main verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √मुच् (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (Singular); कर्मणि-प्रयोग (Passive)

• भवबन्धनात्: from the bondage of worldly existence
• भवबन्धनात्: Apādāna (Ablative/source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भव-बन्धन (प्रातिपदिक; भव + बन्धन)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी-विभक्ति (5th/Ablative), एकवचन (Singular)

Speaker

Īśvara (Śiva)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa tīrtha (waters with sannidhi)

Type: tirtha

Visual Art Cues

Scene: At dawn on the seashore/holy waters of Prabhāsa, pilgrims bathe reverently; the sun rises (Ravi-vāra), and afterward they worship Ādinārāyaṇa with lamps and tulasī, with a symbolic breaking of chains representing release from bhava-bandha.

Characters & Entities

• Ekādaśī
• Ravi-vāra (Sunday)
• Ādinārāyaṇa
• Snāna

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Tīrtha-bathing joined with devoted worship of Ādinārāyaṇa is presented as a direct means toward liberation from saṃsāra.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The waters associated with Prabhāsakṣetra, in the Ādinārāyaṇa Māhātmya context.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Snāna (bathing) on Ekādaśī that falls on Sunday, followed by pūjā of Ādinārāyaṇa.