Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 11

Devanagari script

देव्युवाच । भगवन्विस्तराद्ब्रूहि लिंगैकादशकक्रमम् । स्थानसीमाप्रभेदेन माहात्म्योत्पत्तिकारणैः

Transliteration

devyuvāca | bhagavanvistarādbrūhi liṃgaikādaśakakramam | sthānasīmāprabhedena māhātmyotpattikāraṇaiḥ

Translation

La Déesse dit : Ô Seigneur, explique-moi en détail l’enchaînement des onze liṅga, avec les distinctions de leurs lieux et de leurs limites, ainsi que les causes d’où naît leur grandeur (māhātmya).

Word by Word

• देवी: the Goddess
• देवी: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: देवी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन — speaker

• उवाच: said
• उवाच: Kriya (मुख्यक्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच् (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (परोक्षभूत/Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन, परस्मैपद — ‘said’

• भगवन्: O Lord
• भगवन्: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भगवत् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th/सम्बोधन), एकवचन — vocative

• विस्तरात्: in detail
• विस्तरात्: Sambandha/Adverb (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: विस्तर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तसिल्-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (विस्तरात्) — ‘in detail/at length’

• ब्रूहि: tell (me)
• ब्रूहि: Kriya (आज्ञा)
• Type: Verb
• Root: ब्रू (धातु)
• Form: लोट् (आज्ञार्थ/Imperative), मध्यमपुरुष (2nd person), एकवचन, परस्मैपद — ‘tell’

• लिङ्गैकादशकक्रमम्: the sequence/order of the eleven liṅgas
• लिङ्गैकादशकक्रमम्: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: लिङ्ग-एकादशक-क्रम (प्रातिपदिक; लिङ्ग + एकादशक + क्रम)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन — object of ‘ब्रूहि’

• स्थानसीमाप्रभेदेन: by distinctions of location and boundary
• स्थानसीमाप्रभेदेन: Karana (करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्थान-सीमा-प्रभेद (प्रातिपदिक; स्थान + सीमा + प्रभेद)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/तृतीया), एकवचन — ‘by/according to distinctions of place and boundary’

• माहात्म्योत्पत्तिकारणैः: by the causes of the origin of (their) greatness
• माहात्म्योत्पत्तिकारणैः: Karana (करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: माहात्म्य-उत्पत्ति-कारण (प्रातिपदिक; माहात्म्य + उत्पत्ति + कारण)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/तृतीया), बहुवचन — ‘by the causes of the arising of the greatness’

Speaker

Devī (Pārvatī)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Liṅga-ekādaśaka (Prabhāsa)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Īśvara (Śiva)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Devī, seated in attentive posture, asks Śiva to map the eleven-liṅga sequence: a scroll-like sacred map unfurls showing shrine nodes, boundary lines, and origin icons.

Characters & Entities

• Devī
• Bhagavān (Śiva)
• Liṅga
• Ekādaśa-liṅga

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

True pilgrimage knowledge includes geography, order of worship, and the sacred origins that make a site spiritually potent.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra, specifically its network of eleven liṅgas and their localized māhātmya.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

A request is made for the correct sequence (krama) of the eleven liṅgas, implying a prescribed order of visitation/worship.