Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 126

Devanagari script

नापराध्यामि ते किंचिदहं ब्राह्मणसत्तम । संरंभात्तत्किमर्थं मां जिघांससि वयोऽधिकम्

Transliteration

nāparādhyāmi te kiṃcidahaṃ brāhmaṇasattama | saṃraṃbhāttatkimarthaṃ māṃ jighāṃsasi vayo'dhikam

Translation

「おお、最高のバラモンよ、私はあなたに対して何の罪も犯していません。なぜ突然の激怒によって、年老いた私を殺そうとするのですか？」

Word by Word

• na: not
• na: Sambandha (Negation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na (अव्यय)
• Form: निषेध-अव्यय (negation particle)

• aparādhyāmi: I offend, I commit a fault
• aparādhyāmi: Kriyā (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: apa-√rādh (राध्) (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), उत्तमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• te: to you
• te: Sampradāna (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yusmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, चतुर्थी/षष्ठी (Dative/Genitive), एकवचन; संदर्भे चतुर्थी (to you)

• kiṃcit: anything
• kiṃcit: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kiṃcit (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; अनिश्चित-प्रमाण (indefinite)

• aham: I
• aham: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• brāhmaṇasattama: O best of Brahmins
• brāhmaṇasattama: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: brāhmaṇa (प्रातिपदिक) + sattama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: कर्मधारय-समास (श्रेष्ठः ब्राह्मणः), पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन-प्रथमा (Vocative), एकवचन

• saṃraṃbhāt: from anger, from impetuosity
• saṃraṃbhāt: Hetu (Cause/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃraṃbha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी-विभक्ति (Ablative), एकवचन

• tat: therefore/that
• tat: Sambandha (Discourse deictic/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; अव्ययवत्-प्रयोगः (therefore/that being so)

• kim: what
• kim: Sambandha (Interrogative/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kim (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; प्रश्नवाचक

• artham: purpose, reason
• artham: Prayojana (Purpose/प्रयोजन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: artha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; 'किमर्थम्' इति प्रश्नार्थक-प्रयोगः

• mām: me
• mām: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• jighāṃsasi: you wish to kill
• jighāṃsasi: Kriyā (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √han (हन्) (धातु)
• Form: सन्नन्त-धातु (desiderative: जिघांस्), लट्-लकार, मध्यमपुरुष (2nd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• vayaḥ-adhikam: older (greater in age)
• vayaḥ-adhikam: Karma (Object qualifier/कर्म-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vayas (प्रातिपदिक) + adhika (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (वयसः अधिकम्), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; कर्म-विशेषणम् (qualifying 'mām')

Speaker

Pannaga (the serpent)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Close exchange: the serpent, visibly old, speaks with a calm, pleading expression; the brāhmaṇa’s raised staff hesitates mid-air, his face conflicted.

Characters & Entities

• brāhmaṇa-sattama (addressed person)
• pannaga (serpent)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Dharma requires proportional response and inquiry; rage without cause becomes adharma.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse belongs to the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya context; the tīrtha is not explicitly named in this line.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; it is a moral-ethical dialogue.