Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 12

Devanagari script

शप्तेनापि च रुद्रेण भवद्भिर्विस्मृतं कथम् । यस्यावयवमात्रेण पूरितं सचराचरम्

Transliteration

śaptenāpi ca rudreṇa bhavadbhirvismṛtaṃ katham | yasyāvayavamātreṇa pūritaṃ sacarācaram

Translation

ルドラが語られ、名をもって呼ばれているというのに、どうしてその真理を忘れ得ようか。彼の存在のほんの一分によってさえ、動くものも動かぬものも含む全宇宙は遍く満たされ、充溢している。

Word by Word

• शप्तेन: by the cursed one / by (him who was) cursed
• शप्तेन: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: शप्त (प्रातिपदिक; कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त, पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3), एकवचन

• अपि: even, also
• अपि: Sambandha (Particle/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चय/अवधारण-अव्यय (also/even)

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

• रुद्रेण: by Rudra
• रुद्रेण: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: रुद्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3), एकवचन

• भवद्भिः: by you (honorific)
• भवद्भिः: Kartr (Agent of passive/कर्तृ)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भवत् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3), बहुवचन; आदरार्थक

• विस्मृतम्: forgotten
• विस्मृतम्: Kriya (Result state/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्मृ (धातु)
• Form: वि + स्मृ; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन

• कथम्: how?
• कथम्: Prashna (Interrogative/प्रश्न)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: कथम् (अव्यय)
• Form: प्रश्नवाचक-अव्यय (interrogative adverb)

• यस्य: whose
• यस्य: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6), एकवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक

• अवयवमात्रेण: by merely a part/limb
• अवयवमात्रेण: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अवयव + मात्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3), एकवचन; समासः तत्पुरुषः (अवयवस्य मात्रम्)

• पूरितम्: filled
• पूरितम्: Kriya (Result state/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पूर् (धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन

• सचराचरम्: the moving and the unmoving (entire world)
• सचराचरम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स + चर + अचर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2), एकवचन; समासः द्वन्द्वः (चरं च अचरं च)

Speaker

Satī (deduced from immediate context: Dakṣa addressing/arguing with his daughter in this episode)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kedāra/Kedāranātha

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Brahmā (and the assembly)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A contemplative cosmic visualization: Rudra’s presence suffusing all—mountains, rivers, beings—suggested by a vast luminous field; the speaker questions how such truth could be forgotten.

Characters & Entities

• Rudra (Śiva)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Remembering Śiva’s all-pervading reality dissolves pride and sectarian forgetfulness.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse occurs within the Kedārakhaṇḍa setting (Kedāra-Kṣetra/Kedarnath region), though this line itself is primarily theological rather than geographic.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No direct ritual is prescribed here; it emphasizes right understanding (jñāna) of Rudra’s cosmic pervasion.