Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 111

Devanagari script

अन्तर्धानं प्रजादेहे कामरूपित्वमेव च । उभयोः संध्ययोश्चारं स्थानान्याजीवितं तथा

Transliteration

antardhānaṃ prajādehe kāmarūpitvameva ca | ubhayoḥ saṃdhyayoścāraṃ sthānānyājīvitaṃ tathā

Translation

「生きとし生けるものの中で姿を隠す力、意のままに形を変ずる自在、暁と黄昏の両時に行き来すること、さらに住まう処と生計の道—これらを我は授け、宣する。」

Word by Word

• अन्तर्धानम्: disappearance, invisibility
• अन्तर्धानम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अन्तर्धान (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), एकवचन

• प्रजादेहे: in living bodies
• प्रजादेहे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रजादेह (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative), एकवचन; अधिकरणे (in the bodies of creatures)

• कामरूपित्वम्: ability to assume forms at will
• कामरूपित्वम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कामरूपित्व (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), एकवचन

• एव: indeed/just
• एव: Sambandha (Discourse particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव (अव्यय)
• Form: निपात (emphatic particle)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चय (conjunction)

• उभयोः: of both
• उभयोः: Sambandha (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: उभ (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive), द्विवचन; सम्बन्धे (of both)

• संध्ययोः: of the two twilights (dawn and dusk)
• संध्ययोः: Sambandha (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: संध्या (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive), द्विवचन; सम्बन्धे (of the two twilights)

• चारम्: movement, roaming
• चारम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: चार (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), एकवचन

• स्थानानि: places
• स्थानानि: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्थान (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), बहुवचन

• आजीवितम्: livelihood, means of living
• आजीवितम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: आजीवित (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), एकवचन

• तथा: likewise/also
• तथा: Sambandha (Adverbial)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (adverb)

Speaker

Unspecified first-person narrator within Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya (contextual narrator)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Piśācas

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Skanda pronounces a boon/edict: a radiant figure gestures toward the horizon where dawn and dusk meet; translucent piśācas fade in and out, shifting forms; boundary markers (temple flags, ash lines, coastal rocks) indicate permitted zones.

Characters & Entities

• Piśāca

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Dharma regulates even chaotic forces by assigning limits, times, and places—order is restored through rightful boundaries.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsakṣetra, where sacred governance extends to unseen beings within the tīrtha’s moral ecology.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No explicit ritual; the verse outlines powers and regulated conduct (time/place constraints) for the Piśācas.