Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 126
Devanagari script
तासु गर्भादिकक्लेशभीतस्त्रस्तोऽस्मि नान्यथा
Transliteration
tāsu garbhādikakleśabhītastrasto'smi nānyathā
Translation
«ក្នុងកំណើតទាំងនោះ ខ្ញុំភ័យខ្លាច និងរងទុក្ខដោយវេទនាដែលចាប់ផ្តើមពីការរស់នៅក្នុងស្បូន—មិនមានហេតុផ្សេងទៀតឡើយ»។
Word by Word
tāsuin those (wombs/conditions)
tāsu:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Roottad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), बहुवचन; सर्वनाम
garbhādika-kleśa-bhītaḥafraid of sufferings like pregnancy etc.
garbhādika-kleśa-bhītaḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeAdjective
Rootgarbha (प्रातिपदिक) + ādika (प्रातिपदिक) + kleśa (प्रातिपदिक) + bhīta (भी धातोः क्त/कृदन्त)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुष (गर्भादिकक्लेशेभ्यः भीतः = afraid of pains like pregnancy etc.)
trastaḥterrified
trastaḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeAdjective
Roottrasta (त्रस् धातोः क्त/कृदन्त)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past participle)
asmiI am
asmi:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootas (अस् धातु)
Formलट् (Present), उत्तमपुरुष (1st person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद
nanot
na:
Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootna (अव्यय)
Formनिषेध अव्यय (negation particle)
anyathāotherwise
anyathā:
Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootanyathā (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय (adverb)
Speaker
Unspecified narrator (the insect/being)
Visual Art Cues
Scene: A voice trembling at the thought of womb-suffering; symbolic depiction of cramped darkness and the cycle of rebirth looming like a wheel.
Characters & Entities
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Garbha (womb)FAQs
Saṃsāra is marked by suffering from conception onward; liberation is sought to end repeated embodiment.
None; the verse is a general saṃsāra-teaching within the Sarasvatī-setting narrative.
None.