Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 67

Devanagari script

ऊरुविन्दा मर्कटकास्तथा वेणुयवाश्च ये । ग्राम्यारण्यास्तथा ह्येता ओषध्यस्तु चतुर्दश

Transliteration

ūruvindā markaṭakāstathā veṇuyavāśca ye | grāmyāraṇyāstathā hyetā oṣadhyastu caturdaśa

Translation

ऊरुविन्दा, मर्कटक और वेणुयव—ये, तथा ग्राम्य और अरण्य में उगने वाले भेद सहित, औषधियों के चौदह वर्ग कहे गए हैं।

Word by Word

• ūruvindāḥ: ūruvindā (a grain/plant variety)
• ūruvindāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ūruvindā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन

• markaṭakāḥ: markaṭaka (a grain/plant variety)
• markaṭakāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: markaṭaka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन

• tathā: likewise/also
• tathā: Sambandha (Adverbial/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tathā (अव्यय)
• Form: प्रकार/समुच्चय-अव्यय (adverb: likewise/also)

• veṇuyavāḥ: veṇu-yava (a barley variety)
• veṇuyavāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: veṇu (प्रातिपदिक) + yava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; तत्पुरुष (veṇu-सदृश/veṇu-सम्बद्ध yavaḥ)

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चय-अव्यय (conjunction)

• ye: which/that (those which)
• ye: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; सम्बन्धक (relative pronoun)

• grāmyāḥ: domestic/cultivated
• grāmyāḥ: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: grāmya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; विशेषण (qualifying oṣadhyaḥ)

• raṇyāḥ: wild/forest
• raṇyāḥ: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: raṇya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; विशेषण (qualifying oṣadhyaḥ)

• tathā: also
• tathā: Sambandha (Adverbial/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tathā (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चय-अव्यय (adverb)

• hi: indeed/for
• hi: Sambandha (Discourse particle/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: hi (अव्यय)
• Form: निश्चय/हेतु-अव्यय (emphatic/causal particle)

• etāḥ: these
• etāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: etad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन

• oṣadhyaḥ: herbs/plants
• oṣadhyaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: oṣadhī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन

• tu: indeed
• tu: Sambandha (Discourse particle/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: विशेषण-अव्यय (emphatic particle)

• caturdaśa: fourteen
• caturdaśa: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: caturdaśa (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: संख्यावाचक-विशेषण, प्रथमा, बहुवचनार्थे

Speaker

Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) to the sages (deduced from Purāṇic māhātmya narration style in Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A sage points out medicinal plants—some cultivated near dwellings, others gathered from forest edges—while enumerating their classes; bundles of herbs and roots lie beside a manuscript.

Characters & Entities

• Oṣadhi (medicinal plants)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Nature’s healing powers (oṣadhis) are presented as part of a divinely ordered cosmos, preparing for Chandra’s role as their presiding lord.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa Kṣetra, whose māhātmya frames even cosmic functions (like herbs and luminaries) within sacred geography.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None explicitly in this verse; it is classificatory, leading into the theology of Chandra’s guardianship.