Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 48

Devanagari script

सगरोनाम भूपालो भविष्यति महीतले । तत्पुत्राः षष्टिसाहस्राः खनिष्यंति न संशयः

Transliteration

sagaronāma bhūpālo bhaviṣyati mahītale | tatputrāḥ ṣaṣṭisāhasrāḥ khaniṣyaṃti na saṃśayaḥ

Translation

પૃથ્વી પર સગર નામનો એક રાજા થશે. તેના પુત્રો—સાઠ હજાર—નિઃસંદેહે (ભૂમિ) ખોદશે.

Word by Word

• सगरः: Sagara
• सगरः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सगर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन

• नाम: by name
• नाम: Avyaya (Particle/अव्यय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नाम (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; नामार्थक (by name)

• भूपालः: king
• भूपालः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भू (प्रातिपदिक) + पाल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (भूः पालयति/भू-पालः = king)

• भविष्यति: will be
• भविष्यति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू (धातु)
• Form: लृट् (Simple Future), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद

• महीतले: on the earth
• महीतले: Adhikarana (Locus/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मही (प्रातिपदिक) + तल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (मही-तल = surface of earth)

• तत्पुत्राः: his sons
• तत्पुत्राः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम) + पुत्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (तस्य पुत्राः)

• षष्टिसाहस्राः: sixty thousand
• षष्टिसाहस्राः: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: षष्टि (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक) + साहस्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; द्विगु-समास (षष्टिः साहस्राणि = sixty-thousand)

• खनिष्यन्ति: will dig
• खनिष्यन्ति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: खन् (धातु)
• Form: लृट् (Simple Future), प्रथमपुरुष, बहुवचन, परस्मैपद

• न: not
• न: Avyaya (Negation/अव्यय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निषेध (not)

• संशयः: doubt
• संशयः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: संशय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; ‘न संशयः’ इति वाक्यांशः

Speaker

Agastya

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Sāgara-related tīrtha (ocean/trench genesis episode)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: King Sagara appears in regal posture; behind him, an immense host of sixty thousand sons digs the earth in disciplined rows, raising dust and revealing strata—an epic-scale labor scene foreshadowing a sacred waterway.

Characters & Entities

• Sagara
• Sagara's sons (Ṣaṣṭisāhasra)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Purāṇic history links cosmic landscapes to moral causality—human actions shape sacred geography and future religious memory.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse points toward the larger Gaṅgā–ocean sacred geography cycle; the explicit tīrtha focus is Gaṅgā’s later role.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None.