Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 21

Devanagari script

वाचिकं मानसं पापं कर्मजं यत्पुराकृतम् । स्नानमात्रेण राजेन्द्र तत्र तीर्थे प्रणश्यति

Transliteration

vācikaṃ mānasaṃ pāpaṃ karmajaṃ yatpurākṛtam | snānamātreṇa rājendra tatra tīrthe praṇaśyati

Translation

言葉の罪、心の罪、そして昔なした行いより生じた罪——ただ沐浴するだけで、王の中の王よ、そのティールタ（tīrtha）において悉く滅する。

Word by Word

• वाचिकम्: verbal (spoken)
• वाचिकम्: Karma-viśeṣaṇa (कर्म-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वाचिक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे द्वितीया (2nd) एकवचनम्; विशेषणम्

• मानसम्: mental
• मानसम्: Karma-viśeṣaṇa (कर्म-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मानस (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे द्वितीया (2nd) एकवचनम्; विशेषणम्

• पापम्: sin
• पापम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे द्वितीया (2nd) एकवचनम्

• कर्मजम्: born of actions (deed-born)
• कर्मजम्: Karma-viśeṣaṇa (कर्म-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कर्म-जन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे द्वितीया (2nd) एकवचनम्; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (कर्मणः जातम्)

• यत्: which
• यत्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे द्वितीया (2nd) एकवचनम्; सम्बन्धक (relative pronoun)

• पुरा: formerly
• पुरा: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (कालाधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुरा (अव्यय)
• Form: कालवाचक-अव्यय (adverb of time)

• कृतम्: done/committed
• कृतम्: Karma-viśeṣaṇa (कर्म-सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ (धातु)
• Form: क्त (past passive participle); नपुंसकलिङ्गे द्वितीया (2nd) एकवचनम्; कर्मणि प्रयोगे भाव/कर्मवाचक

• स्नानमात्रेण: by mere bathing
• स्नानमात्रेण: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्नान-मात्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे तृतीया (3rd) एकवचनम्; तत्पुरुषः (स्नानस्य मात्रम्)

• राजेन्द्र: O king of kings
• राजेन्द्र: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्-इन्द्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गे सम्बोधन (Vocative) एकवचनम्; तत्पुरुषः (राज्ञाम् इन्द्रः)

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Deśa-adhikaraṇa (देशाधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक-अव्यय (adverb of place)

• तीर्थे: at the sacred ford
• तीर्थे: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे सप्तमी (7th) एकवचनम्

• प्रणश्यति: perishes/is destroyed
• प्रणश्यति: Kriya (Verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र-नश् (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present) परस्मैपदम्; प्रथमपुरुषः एकवचनम्

Speaker

Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced; royal address continues)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Candrahāsa

Type: tirtha

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: rājendra (king)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A kingly listener receives assurance from a sage; in the background, pilgrims bathe at Candrahāsa ghat, with symbolic threefold impurities dissolving into the river.

Characters & Entities

• Tīrtha
• Snāna

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

The tīrtha is portrayed as so potent that mere bathing can dissolve accumulated sins of speech, mind, and action.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse says “that tīrtha” in continuation—contextually the Candrahāsa tīrtha described in the preceding verses.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Snāna (ritual bathing) alone is stated as the efficacious act at this tīrtha.