Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 100
Devanagari script
उपपातकिनो ये च महापातकिनश्च ये । तेपि काशीं समासाद्य भविष्यंति गतैनसः
Transliteration
upapātakino ye ca mahāpātakinaśca ye | tepi kāśīṃ samāsādya bhaviṣyaṃti gatainasaḥ
Translation
小罪を犯した者も大罪を犯した者も、カーシーに至れば、彼らもまた罪垢を離れる。
Word by Word
उपपातकिनःminor sinners
उपपातकिनः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootउपपातकिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन
येwho
ये:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक
चand
च:
Discourse (Conjunction)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formसमुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)
महापातकिनःgreat sinners
महापातकिनः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootमहा (प्रातिपदिक) + पातकिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; समासः—महान् पातकी (कर्मधारय)
चand
च:
Discourse (Conjunction)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formसमुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)
येwho
ये:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक
तेthey
ते:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन
अपिalso/even
अपि:
Discourse (Particle)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअपि (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय, अप्यर्थे/समुच्चये (particle: also/even)
काशीम्Kāśī
काशीम्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootकाशी (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन
समासाद्यhaving reached
समासाद्य:
Purvakala (Prior action)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootसम्-आ-√सद् (धातु) → समासाद्य (क्त्वान्त/अव्ययकृदन्त)
Formक्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (gerund), पूर्वकालिक क्रिया
भविष्यन्तिwill become
भविष्यन्ति:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootभू (धातु)
Formलृट् (Simple Future), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन; परस्मैपद
गतैनसःfree from sin (whose sin has gone)
गतैनसः:
Karta (Subject complement/कर्ता-विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootगत (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √गम्) + एनस् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; समासः—गतं एनः येषाम् (बहुव्रीहि)
Speaker
Śiva
Tirtha Mahatmya
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Visual Art Cues
Scene: Pilgrims of all kinds—some burdened, some penitent—enter Kāśī’s sacred boundary; their dark karmic stains lift like smoke; the Ganga glows, and temple bells mark a new beginning.
Characters & Entities
K
Kāśī (Vārāṇasī)FAQs
Kāśī is portrayed as exceptionally purifying—divine grace tied to sacred geography can cleanse even grave wrongdoing.
Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), revered as a sin-destroying kṣetra in the Skanda Purāṇa.
The act emphasized is pilgrimage—‘reaching Kāśī’ (samāsādya); no specific dāna/snān/japa is stated in this verse.