Padma Purana — Svarga Khanda, Shloka 154

Karma, Non-Violence, Tīrtha & Gaṅgā Merit, Vaiṣṇava Protection, Śālagrāma Worship, and Ekādaśī as Deliverance

Devanagari script

उभयं पद्मनाभस्य दिनं पातकनाशनम् । तावत्पापानि देहेऽस्मिन्वसंतीह विशांवर

Transliteration

ubhayaṃ padmanābhasya dinaṃ pātakanāśanam | tāvatpāpāni dehe'sminvasaṃtīha viśāṃvara

Translation

पद्मनाभ के दिन के दोनों (व्रत/आचरण) पापों का नाश करने वाले हैं; हे मनुष्यों में श्रेष्ठ, तब तक ही पाप इस देह में निवास करते हैं।

Word by Word

• ubhayam: both
• ubhayam: Karma (कर्म/object; with implied verb)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ubhaya (उभय प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘both (things)’

• padmanābhasya: of Padmanābha (Viṣṇu)
• padmanābhasya: Ṣaṣṭhī-sambandha (षष्ठी-सम्बन्ध/possessor)
• Type: Noun
• Root: padma+nābha (पद्म + नाभ प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (Genitive/6th), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः ‘whose navel is a lotus’ (epithet of Viṣṇu)

• dinam: day
• dinam: Karta (कर्ता/subject; with implied ‘is’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dina (दिन प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन

• pātaka-nāśanam: destroyer of sins
• pātaka-nāśanam: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: pātaka+nāśana (पातक + नाशन प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; षष्ठी/कर्मधारय-भावे तत्पुरुषः ‘sin-destroying’

• tāvat: so long
• tāvat: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/adverbial)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tāvat (तावत् अव्यय/प्रमाणवाचक)
• Form: Adverb of extent (परिमाण-अव्यय) ‘so long/so much’

• pāpāni: sins
• pāpāni: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāpa (पाप प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• dehe: in the body
• dehe: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण/location)
• Type: Noun
• Root: deha (देह प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन

• asmin: in this
• asmin: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण; deictic)
• Type: Noun
• Root: idam (इदम् सर्वनाम)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन; demonstrative pronoun

• vasanti: dwell, remain
• vasanti: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vas (वस् धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष, बहुवचन

• iha: here
• iha: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण/adverbial location)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: iha (अव्यय)
• Form: Adverb (देशवाचक-अव्यय)

• viśāṃvara: O best of men
• viśāṃvara: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन/address)
• Type: Noun
• Root: viśāṃvara (विशांवर प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन; honorific address ‘best of the people’

Speaker

Unspecified narrator/speaker (context not provided in the input excerpt)

Verse Rasa

Primary Rasa: shanta

Secondary Rasa: adbhuta

Sandhi Resolution Notes

Sandhi Resolution Notes: dehe+asmin → dehe'smin; vasanti+iha → vasaṃtīha (anusvāra by sandhi/metrical); padmanābha is a tatpuruṣa compound.

Characters & Entities

• Padmanābha (Viṣṇu)

FAQs

What is meant by “the day of Padmanābha” in this verse?

It refers to a sacred observance-day dedicated to Padmanābha (Viṣṇu), on which devotional practices (such as vrata, worship, or related rites) are said to have strong purificatory power.

What does the verse claim about sin (pāpa) and the body?

It teaches that sins are not permanent; they are said to ‘dwell in the body’ only until the purifying power of the Padmanābha-day observance takes effect, after which they are destroyed.

What ethical or spiritual lesson is emphasized here?

The verse emphasizes accountability and purification: sincere devotional discipline connected with Viṣṇu is portrayed as a means to cleanse wrongdoing and renew one’s spiritual condition.