Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 61

Devanagari script

परदारप्रसृमरं करं छिंध्यस्य पापिनः । परदारगृहं यातुः पादौ चास्य विखंडय

Transliteration

paradāraprasṛmaraṃ karaṃ chiṃdhyasya pāpinaḥ | paradāragṛhaṃ yātuḥ pādau cāsya vikhaṃḍaya

Translation

他人の妻に手を伸ばす罪人の手を切り落とせ。また、他人の妻を求めて他人の家に行く者の足を打ち砕け。

Word by Word

• परदार-प्रसृमरम्: (the) roaming towards another’s wife
• परदार-प्रसृमरम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पर (प्रातिपदिक) + दार (प्रातिपदिक) + प्रसृमर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (कर्म), एकवचन; विशेषणम्—‘करम्’ इति विशेष्यस्य

• करम्: hand
• करम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• छिन्धि: cut!
• छिन्धि: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: छिद् (धातु)
• Form: लोट्-लकार (आज्ञार्थ), मध्यम-पुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपदम्

• अस्य: of him
• अस्य: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी-विभक्ति (सम्बन्ध), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• पापिनः: of the sinful (man)
• पापिनः: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पापिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; ‘अस्य’ इत्यस्य विशेषणम्

• परदार-गृहम्: another man’s wife’s house
• परदार-गृहम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पर (प्रातिपदिक) + दार (प्रातिपदिक) + गृह (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• यातुः: of the goer (one who goes)
• यातुः: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: या (धातु) + तृ (कृत्-प्रत्यय)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; कर्तरि-तृन् (agent noun)

• पादौ: (his) two feet
• पादौ: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाद (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, द्विवचन

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

• अस्य: of him
• अस्य: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• विखण्डय: break to pieces!
• विखण्डय: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि + खण्ड् (धातु)
• Form: लोट्-लकार (आज्ञार्थ), मध्यम-पुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपदम्

Speaker

Skanda (deduced)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A fierce, judicial scene: a sinner reaching toward another’s wife is restrained; symbolic severing of the grasping hand and breaking of the feet that carry him to forbidden houses—an allegory of cutting off sinful agency.

Characters & Entities

• Paradāra (another’s spouse)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Protection of marital and household dharma is central; violating another’s marriage is portrayed as a grave breach with heavy karmic consequence.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The setting remains Kāśī in the Kāśīkhaṇḍa; this verse is ethical instruction rather than a named tīrtha praise.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No ritual is specified in the verse; it functions as a dharmic prohibition (niṣedha) against paradāra.