Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 35

Devanagari script

वेदबाह्य दुराचारास्त्याज्यास्ते ह्यत्र कर्मणि । वेदवादरता यूयं सर्वे विष्णुपुरोगमाः

Transliteration

vedabāhya durācārāstyājyāste hyatra karmaṇi | vedavādaratā yūyaṃ sarve viṣṇupurogamāḥ

Translation

「ヴェーダの外に立ち、悪しき行いをなす者は、この儀礼より退けられるべきである。だが汝らは皆、ヴェーダの正説に帰依する者—ヴィシュヌを先頭として従う者たちである。」

Word by Word

• vedabāhyāḥ: outside the Veda, un-Vedic
• vedabāhyāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: veda + bāhya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुष (vedāt bāhyāḥ / vedasya bāhyāḥ)

• durācārāḥ: evil-doers, of bad conduct
• durācārāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dur + ācāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुष (duṣṭaḥ ācāraḥ)

• tyājyāḥ: to be abandoned
• tyājyāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Predicate adjective/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: tyajya (√tyaj धातु + यत्/ण्यत्-भाव)
• Form: कृदन्त-विशेषण (gerundive), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; ‘to be abandoned’

• te: they
• te: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; सर्वनाम

• hi: indeed
• hi: Sambandha (Particle/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: hi (अव्यय)
• Form: निपात (emphatic particle)

• atra: here
• atra: Adhikaraṇa (Adverbial location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: atra (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक-अव्यय (adverb of place)

• karmaṇi: in the rite/action
• karmaṇi: Adhikaraṇa (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: karman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन

• vedavādaratāḥ: devoted to Vedic doctrine
• vedavādaratāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: veda + vāda + rata (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुष (veda-vāde ratāḥ)

• yūyam: you (all)
• yūyam: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yuṣmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: उत्तमपुरुष-बहुवचनार्थक सर्वनाम, प्रथमा (Nominative), बहुवचन

• sarve: all
• sarve: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; विशेषण

• viṣṇupurogamāḥ: having Viṣṇu as leader
• viṣṇupurogamāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: viṣṇu + puro-gama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; बहुव्रीहि (viṣṇuḥ purogamaḥ yeṣām—‘having Viṣṇu as leader/going in front’)

Speaker

Dakṣa

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Dakṣa-yajña setting (Kedāra narrative)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Dakṣa addresses the priests, indicating that vedabāhya and wicked actors must be removed; a group of Veda-chanting brāhmaṇas stands in orderly rows, while a sidelined cluster is shown being turned away; Viṣṇu is invoked as the leading exemplar in the rhetoric.

Characters & Entities

• Dakṣa
• Viṣṇu
• Veda

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Ritual purity is invoked as an external standard, but the Purāṇic subtext warns that orthodoxy without humility becomes a tool of exclusion.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The Kedārakhaṇḍa setting remains in the background; the verse centers on yajña eligibility rather than tīrtha praise.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Exclusion (tyāga) of those deemed ‘veda-bāhya’ from participation in the ongoing ritual.