Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 41

Devanagari script

येन निर्याति ते कुष्ठो भास्करस्योदयं प्रति । तच्छ्रुत्वाऽहं च तत्प्राप्तः सप्तम्यां सूर्यसंयुजि । ततश्च कृतवान्स्नानं निर्झरे तत्र शांभवे

Transliteration

yena niryāti te kuṣṭho bhāskarasyodayaṃ prati | tacchrutvā'haṃ ca tatprāptaḥ saptamyāṃ sūryasaṃyuji | tataśca kṛtavānsnānaṃ nirjhare tatra śāṃbhave

Translation

「これによって汝の癩は去る。太陽の昇る時に。」そう聞いて私は、太陽の日（主日）に当たるサプタミーにその地へ至り、そこでシャンバヴァの泉流にて沐浴を行った。

Word by Word

• yena: by which
• yena: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (pronoun), नपुंसकलिङ्ग (neuter), तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental/3rd), एकवचन (singular)

• niryāti: goes out, departs
• niryāti: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: nir√yā (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (singular), परस्मैपद

• te: your
• te: Sambandha (Possessor/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (pronoun), षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive/6th), एकवचन (singular)

• kuṣṭhaḥ: leprosy (disease)
• kuṣṭhaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kuṣṭha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन (singular)

• bhāskarasya: of the Sun
• bhāskarasya: Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhāskara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive/6th), एकवचन (singular)

• udayam: rising, sunrise
• udayam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: udaya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative/2nd), एकवचन (singular)

• prati: towards
• prati: Direction/Pratiyogi (प्रति-सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: prati (अव्यय)
• Form: उपसर्ग/अव्यय (preposition-like indeclinable), अर्थः—‘towards/with regard to’

• tat: that (fact)
• tat: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (pronoun), नपुंसकलिङ्ग (neuter), द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative/2nd), एकवचन (singular)

• śrutvā: having heard
• śrutvā: Purvakala-kriya (Prior action/पूर्वकालक्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √śru (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्ययकृदन्त (gerund/absolutive), अर्थः—‘having heard’

• aham: I
• aham: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (pronoun), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन (singular)

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (Conjunction/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक अव्यय (conjunction)

• tat: that
• tat: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम-विशेषण (pronominal adjective), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• prāptaḥ: arrived, reached
• prāptaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: pra√āp (धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त (past passive participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; कर्तरि प्रयोगे—‘having reached/arrived’

• saptamyām: on the seventh (tithi)
• saptamyām: Adhikarana (Location/Time/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saptamī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग (feminine), सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन (singular); तिथिवाचक (denoting the 7th lunar day)

• sūrya-saṃyuji: at the Sun’s conjunction (auspicious alignment)
• sūrya-saṃyuji: Adhikarana (Time/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sūrya (प्रातिपदिक) + saṃyuj (प्रातिपदिक/कृदन्ताधारित)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (determinative): ‘सूर्येण संयुजि’ इति; पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन

• tataḥ: then
• tataḥ: Sequence (क्रम)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatas (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (adverb), अर्थः—‘then/thereafter’

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (Conjunction/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक अव्यय (conjunction)

• kṛtavān: did, performed
• kṛtavān: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √kṛ (धातु)
• Form: क्तवतु-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त (perfect participle/agentive), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; अर्थः—‘did/has done’

• snānam: bath
• snānam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: snāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (neuter), द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative/2nd), एकवचन (singular)

• nirjhare: in the waterfall/stream
• nirjhare: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nirjhara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन (singular)

• tatra: there
• tatra: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatra (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक अव्यय (adverb of place)

• śāmbhave: Śaiva, belonging to Śambhu (Śiva)
• śāmbhave: Adhikarana (Location qualifier/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: śāmbhava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; विशेषण—निर्झरस्य (qualifying ‘nirjhara’)

Speaker

Kārpaṭika (ascetic/pilgrim narrator)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Śāmbhava-nirjhara (within Viśvāmitra-jalāvaha tīrtha)

Type: kund

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: King (nṛpa) as frame-listener; pilgrim as immediate listener to tapasvin

Visual Art Cues

Scene: At dawn, the Sun rises on the horizon; the pilgrim steps into a clear spring-stream labeled Śāmbhava; rays touch the water as the pilgrim bathes, and the diseased marks begin to fade, watched by the ascetic from the bank.

Characters & Entities

• Bhāskara (Sūrya)
• Śāmbhava (Śiva-associated) nirjhara
• Viśvāmitra-jalāvaha Tīrtha

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

When instruction is received from a compassionate guide, disciplined observance (śraddhā + vidhi) yields transformative results.

Which specific holy site (Tīrtha) is glorified here?

The bathing is performed at the Śāmbhava spring-stream within the Viśvāmitra-jalāvaha tīrtha context in Nāgara-kṣetra.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Bathe at sunrise on Saptamī that coincides with Sunday, at the specified spring/stream of the tīrtha.