Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 53

Devanagari script

व्यास उवाच । कुतः समागतो ब्रह्मन्सांप्रतं मुनिसत्तमः । परमानंदसंदोहः समभूत्सांप्रतं तव

Transliteration

vyāsa uvāca | kutaḥ samāgato brahmansāṃprataṃ munisattamaḥ | paramānaṃdasaṃdohaḥ samabhūtsāṃprataṃ tava

Translation

વ્યાસ બોલ્યા—હે બ્રહ્મન, હે મુનિશ્રેષ્ઠ! તું હમણાં ક્યાંથી આવ્યો છે? આ સમયે તારા અંદર પરમાનંદનો એવો મહાપ્રવાહ કેમ ઊઠ્યો છે?

Word by Word

• vyāsaḥ: Vyāsa
• vyāsaḥ: Karta (Speaker/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vyāsa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• uvāca: said
• uvāca: Kriyā (Predicate)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vac (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन; परस्मैपद; धातु: वच् (2.प.); अर्थः: said

• kutaḥ: from where
• kutaḥ: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Source/Question)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: kutas (किम्-प्रश्नप्रातिपदिक)
• Form: प्रश्नार्थक अव्यय (interrogative adverb)

• samāgataḥ: has come
• samāgataḥ: Kriyā (Predicate/State)
• Type: Verb
• Root: sam-ā√gam (धातु)
• Form: क्त (past participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; धातु: गम् (1.प.) उपसर्ग: सम्+आ; अर्थः: arrived/come

• brahman: O Brahmin
• brahman: Sambodhana (Address)
• Type: Noun
• Root: brahman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, संबोधन (8th/Vocative), एकवचन; संबोधनम्

• sāṃpratam: now
• sāṃpratam: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Temporal)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: sāṃpratam (अव्यय)
• Form: कालवाचक अव्यय (adverb: now/at present)

• muni-sattamaḥ: best of sages
• muni-sattamaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: muni (प्रातिपदिक) + sattama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (munīnām sattamaḥ); पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• parama-ānanda-saṃdohaḥ: a supreme mass of bliss
• parama-ānanda-saṃdohaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: parama (प्रातिपदिक) + ānanda (प्रातिपदिक) + saṃdoha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: कर्मधारय/तत्पुरुष-समास (परमः आनन्दः एव संदोहः / आनन्दस्य संदोहः परमः); पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• samabhūt: arose
• samabhūt: Kriyā (Predicate)
• Type: Verb
• Root: sam√bhū (धातु)
• Form: लङ् (Imperfect/Past), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन; परस्मैपद; धातु: भू (1.प.) उपसर्ग: सम्; अर्थः: arose/became

• sāṃpratam: now
• sāṃpratam: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Temporal)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: sāṃpratam (अव्यय)
• Form: कालवाचक अव्यय (adverb: now)

• tava: of you/your
• tava: Sambandha (Possessor)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

Speaker

Vyāsa (Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Ayodhyā (implied)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Śaunaka-group (implied)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Vyāsa speaks directly, asking the returning sage where he has come from and why a surge of supreme bliss shines in him; the scene is calm, scholarly, and intimate.

Characters & Entities

• Vyāsa
• Agastya

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

In Purāṇic discourse, the saint’s joy is interrogated as a dhārmic sign—pointing to a sacred encounter or tīrtha-realization.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Contextually, Ayodhyā and its tīrthas—since the question concerns the source of Agastya’s extraordinary bliss.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; it introduces inquiry that will elicit the tīrtha’s māhātmya and associated practices.