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Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 88

Devanagari script

कौमारे कर्णवेधेन मातापित्रोर्विताडनैः । अक्षराध्ययनाद्यैश्च दुःखं स्याद्गुरुशासनात्

Transliteration

kaumāre karṇavedhena mātāpitrorvitāḍanaiḥ | akṣarādhyayanādyaiśca duḥkhaṃ syādguruśāsanāt

Translation

कौमार अवस्था में कान छिदवाने से, माता-पिता के दंड से, और अक्षर-ज्ञान आदि सीखने से दुःख होता है; गुरु के अनुशासन से भी कष्ट होता है।

Word by Word
kaumārein childhood
kaumāre:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootkaumāra (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/सप्तमी), एकवचन; ‘कौमार’ अवस्था (locative: “in childhood”)
karṇa-vedhenaby ear-piercing
karṇa-vedhena:
Karana (Instrument/करण)
TypeNoun
Rootkarṇa (प्रातिपदिक) + vedha (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/तृतीया), एकवचन; कर्णस्य वेधः इति षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः
mātā-pitroḥof the mother and father
mātā-pitroḥ:
Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootmātṛ (प्रातिपदिक) + pitṛ (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग (समाहार-द्वन्द्वे), षष्ठी (6th/षष्ठी), द्विवचन; माता च पिता च (genitive dual: “of mother and father”)
vitāḍanaiḥby beatings/strikings
vitāḍanaiḥ:
Karana (Instrument/करण)
TypeNoun
Rootvi + tāḍana (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/तृतीया), बहुवचन; ‘विताडन’ = प्रहार/ताडन (instrumental plural)
akṣara-adhyayana-ādyaiḥby learning letters etc.
akṣara-adhyayana-ādyaiḥ:
Karana (Instrument/करण)
TypeNoun
Rootakṣara (प्रातिपदिक) + adhyayana (प्रातिपदिक) + ādi (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/तृतीया), बहुवचन; अक्षराणाम् अध्ययनम् इति षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः, ‘आदि’समासान्तेन अन्यान्यपि
caand
ca:
Sambandha/Connector (सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootca (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; समुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)
duḥkhamsuffering
duḥkham:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootduḥkha (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन
syātwould be/arises
syāt:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√as (धा)
Formविधिलिङ् (Optative/विधिलिङ्), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन
guru-śāsanātfrom the teacher’s discipline/punishment
guru-śāsanāt:
Hetu (Cause/हेतु)
TypeNoun
Rootguru (प्रातिपदिक) + śāsana (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/पञ्चमी), एकवचन; गुरोः शासनम् इति षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः; हेत्वर्थे (ablative of cause)
Speaker

Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta) (deduced from Māheśvarakhaṇḍa narrative convention)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A boy undergoing karṇavedha with elders present; a teacher holding a palm-leaf manuscript and stylus; the child’s mixed fear and resolve; the scene balanced to show dharma’s structure yet the pain of formation.

FAQs

Even the formative stage of learning and saṃskāras involves hardship; hence one should not imagine worldly life as uninterrupted ease.

No tīrtha is referenced in this verse.

Karṇavedha (ear-piercing) is mentioned as a life-rite/saṃskāra contextually, but no procedure or vow is prescribed here.

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