Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 54
Devanagari script
कल्पकालोज्जवालापूरितांबरगोचरः । हुताश उरणारूढः शक्तिहस्तो व्यवस्थितः
Transliteration
kalpakālojjavālāpūritāṃbaragocaraḥ | hutāśa uraṇārūḍhaḥ śaktihasto vyavasthitaḥ
Translation
アグニ（フターシャ）は、劫末の火のごとく赫々と燃え、天を光で満たして立ち備えた。牡羊に乗り、手には槍を執っていた。
Word by Word
kalpakālojjavālāpūritāṃbaragocaraḥwhose range was the sky filled with blaze like at the end of an aeon
kalpakālojjavālāpūritāṃbaragocaraḥ:
Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootkalpakāla + ujjvālā + pūrita + ambara + gocara (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; बहुपद-समासः—‘कल्पकाल-उज्ज्वाला’ (bright like the time of dissolution) + ‘पूरित-अम्बर’ (sky-filling) + ‘गोचर’ (range/field of vision)
hutāśaḥAgni (Fire-god)
hutāśaḥ:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Roothutāśa (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन
uraṇārūḍhaḥmounted on an uraṇa (ram)
uraṇārūḍhaḥ:
Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rooturaṇa + ārūḍha (प्रातिपदिक; √ruh with ā-)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त ‘ārūḍha’ (mounted) + ‘uraṇa’ (ram/antelope-like mount)
śaktihastaḥspear-in-hand
śaktihastaḥ:
Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootśakti + hasta (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; बहुव्रीहिः—‘शक्तिः हस्ते यस्य’ (having a spear in hand)
vyavasthitaḥstood ready/was stationed
vyavasthitaḥ:
Kriyā (क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootvi-ava-√sthā (धातु)
Formक्त-प्रत्ययान्त (Past Passive Participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; स्थित/ready
Speaker
Deductive (contextual): narrator voice (often Sūta) describing Agni’s form
Visual Art Cues
Scene: Agni blazes like the end-of-age conflagration, filling the sky with incandescent glow; he stands poised on a ram, spear raised, flames forming a radiant canopy around him.
Characters & Entities
A
Agni (Hutāśa)Ś
Śakti (spear)R
Ram (uraṇa)FAQs
Agni symbolizes purifying power—divine energy that consumes impurity and strengthens dharma in times of crisis.
No tīrtha is mentioned; the verse is a depiction of a deity in battle readiness.
None directly, though Agni’s identity as Hutāśa recalls the centrality of offerings in yajña.