Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 14

Devanagari script

यस्य स्पर्द्धा समुत्पन्ना पूर्वं सह सुमेरुणा । ततः प्राह सहस्रांशुं गत्वा स क्रोधमूर्च्छितः

Transliteration

yasya sparddhā samutpannā pūrvaṃ saha sumeruṇā | tataḥ prāha sahasrāṃśuṃ gatvā sa krodhamūrcchitaḥ

Translation

તે વિંધ્યને પહેલાં સુમેરુ સાથે સ્પર્ધા ઊભી થઈ. પછી ક્રોધથી મૂર્ચ્છિત થઈ તે સહસ્રકિરણ ભાસ્કર પાસે જઈને બોલ્યો.

Word by Word

• yasya: whose/of whom
• yasya: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (pronoun), षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive/6th), एकवचन (Singular), पुल्लिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग-सम्भव (contextual)

• sparddhā: rivalry, jealousy
• sparddhā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sparddhā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग (Feminine), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन (Singular)

• samutpannā: arisen, produced
• samutpannā: Karta-dharma (Predicate adjective/कर्तृधर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sam-ut-pad (धातु) + kta (क्त)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (past passive participle), स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; विशेषण (qualifying sparddhā)

• pūrvam: formerly, earlier
• pūrvam: Kāla (Time/काल)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: pūrva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय (indeclinable), कालवाचक क्रियाविशेषण (temporal adverb)

• saha: with
• saha: Sahakāraka (Accompaniment/सह)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: saha (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, सहार्थक-उपपद (with; governs instrumental)

• sumeruṇā: with Sumeru (the great Meru)
• sumeruṇā: Sahakāraka (Accompaniment/सह)
• Type: Noun
• Root: su-meru (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुल्लिङ्ग (Masculine), तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental/3rd), एकवचन; समासः कर्मधारय (सु + मेरु)

• tataḥ: then, thereafter
• tataḥ: Kāla (Sequence/काल)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatas (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय, तदनन्तर-क्रमवाचक (then/thereupon)

• prāha: said, spoke
• prāha: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: pra-√ah (अह्/ब्रू) (धातु)
• Form: लिट्-लकार (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (Singular), परस्मैपद

• sahasrāṃśum: the thousand-rayed one (Sun)
• sahasrāṃśum: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sahasra-aṃśu (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुल्लिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative/2nd), एकवचन; षष्ठी/कर्मधारय-समासार्थ (सहस्राणि अंशवः यस्य) = ‘thousand-rayed’

• gatvā: having gone
• gatvā: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial participle/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: √gam (गम्) (धातु) + ktvā (क्त्वा)
• Form: क्त्वान्त अव्यय (absolutive/gerund), पूर्वकालिक क्रिया (having gone)

• saḥ: he
• saḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, पुल्लिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• krodha-mūrcchitaḥ: faint/overcome with anger
• krodha-mūrcchitaḥ: Karta-dharma (Predicate adjective/कर्तृधर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: krodha (प्रातिपदिक) + mūrcchita (√mūrch + kta)
• Form: समासः तत्पुरुष (कर्मधारय-सदृशः: क्रोधेन मूर्च्छितः), पुल्लिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; भूतकृदन्त-विशेषण

Speaker

Sūta (contextual continuation)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Personified Vindhya, massive and dark-hued, turns from Meru with jealousy; he strides toward the blazing Sun, anger clouding the sky as cosmic forces gather.

Characters & Entities

• Vindhya (Mountain)
• Sumeru (Mount Meru)
• Sahasrāṃśu (Sūrya)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Pride and rivalry disturb cosmic harmony; purāṇic narratives use such conflicts to reveal the need for restraint and dharmic order.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Vindhya is the mythic focal landscape; its story sets the stage for the sanctity associated with Agastya and related tīrthas.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None in this verse; it transitions from landscape praise to the mythic causation behind the tīrtha-māhātmya.