Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 181
Devanagari script
गोप्रतारसमं तीर्थं न भूतं न भविष्यति । यत्र प्रयागराजोऽपि स्नातुमायाति कार्तिके
Transliteration
gopratārasamaṃ tīrthaṃ na bhūtaṃ na bhaviṣyati | yatra prayāgarājo'pi snātumāyāti kārtike
Translation
ゴープラターラに等しい聖なる渡しは、過去にもなく未来にもない。そこへは、ティールタの王プラヤーガでさえ、カールティカの月に沐浴のため訪れる。
Word by Word
गोप्रतारसमम्equal to Gopratāra
गोप्रतारसमम्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeAdjective
Rootगोप्रतार-सम (प्रातिपदिक; गोप्रतार + सम)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन; उपमान-सम्बन्धे तत्पुरुषः; विशेषणम् (तीर्थम्)
तीर्थम्pilgrimage place, sacred ford
तीर्थम्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootतीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन
नnot
न:
Negation (निषेध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootन (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; निषेध (negation particle)
भूतम्has existed
भूतम्:
Kriya (Predicative/विधेय)
TypeVerb
Rootभू (धातु) + क्त (कृत्-प्रत्यय)
Formभूतकालिक कृदन्त (क्त), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘has been/existed’ (past participle used predicatively)
नnor
न:
Negation (निषेध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootन (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; निषेध
भविष्यतिwill be
भविष्यति:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootभू (धातु)
Formलृट्-लकार (Simple Future), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन
यत्रwhere
यत्र:
Adhikarana (Locative sense/अधिकरण)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootयत्र (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; सम्बन्धबोधक-स्थानवाचक (relative adverb: where)
प्रयागराजःPrayāgarāja (king of Prayāga; Prayāga itself personified)
प्रयागराजः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootप्रयाग-राज (प्रातिपदिक; प्रयाग + राज)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन; समासः षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः ‘प्रयागस्य राजा’
अपिeven
अपि:
Sambandha/Particle (निपात)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअपि (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; निपात
स्नातुम्to bathe
स्नातुम्:
Prayojana (Purpose/प्रयोजन)
TypeVerb
Rootस्ना (धातु)
Formतुमुन्-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (infinitive)
आयातिcomes
आयाति:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootआ-या (धातु)
Formलट्-लकार (Present), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन
कार्तिकेin Kārtika
कार्तिके:
Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootकार्तिक (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/सप्तमी), एकवचन; कालवाचक-अधिकरणम्
Speaker
Brahmā (deduced)
Tirtha Mahatmya
Tirtha: Gopratāra
Type: ghat
Visual Art Cues
Scene: Personified Prayāga, crowned as ‘tīrtharāja’, approaches Ayodhyā’s Gopratāra-ghāṭ in Kārtika; the Sarayū glitters, pilgrims line the steps with lamps and waterpots.
Characters & Entities
G
GopratāraP
Prayāga (Prayāgarāja)K
KārtikaFAQs
The Purāṇas rank certain sites as uniquely supreme; reverence and pilgrimage to such tīrthas is presented as spiritually transformative.
Gopratāra Tīrtha in Ayodhyā, declared unequalled.
Bathing (snāna) in Kārtika—so powerful that even Prayāga is poetically said to come there to bathe.