Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 10

Devanagari script

मूर्त्तयस्तिथिनान्म्यः स्युरेकादश्यः सदैव हि । संवत्सरेण पूज्यंते चतुर्विंश तिमूर्तयः

Transliteration

mūrttayastithinānmyaḥ syurekādaśyaḥ sadaiva hi | saṃvatsareṇa pūjyaṃte caturviṃśa timūrtayaḥ

Translation

រូបទាំងឡាយសមស្របតាមថ្ងៃតិថីនៃចន្ទ; ពិតប្រាកដណាស់ ថ្ងៃឯកាទសីជាពេលពិសេសជានិច្ច។ ដូច្នេះ ក្នុងរយៈពេលមួយឆ្នាំ រូបទាំង២៤ ត្រូវបានគោរពបូជាដោយសទ្ធា។

Word by Word

• mūrtayaḥ: forms / images
• mūrtayaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mūrti (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• tithīnām: of lunar days (tithis)
• tithīnām: Sambandha (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tithi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), बहुवचन

• ādyāḥ: beginning (ones)
• ādyāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ādya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• syuḥ: would be / are (to be)
• syuḥ: Kriyā (Verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: as (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), बहुवचन

• ekādaśyaḥ: Ekādaśīs
• ekādaśyaḥ: Karta (Subject complement)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ekādaśī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; ‘एकादशी’ (11th lunar day)

• sadaiva: always
• sadaiva: Adhikaraṇa (Temporal)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: sadā + eva (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्ययीभाव-समास; क्रियाविशेषण (adverb)

• hi: indeed
• hi: Sambandha (Emphasis)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: hi (अव्यय)
• Form: निपात (emphatic particle)

• saṃvatsareṇa: by (the cycle of) a year
• saṃvatsareṇa: Karaṇa (Instrument/means)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃvatsara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), एकवचन

• pūjyante: are worshipped
• pūjyante: Kriyā (Verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: pūj (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), कर्मणि प्रयोग (Passive), प्रथमपुरुष, बहुवचन

• caturviṃśati: twenty-four
• caturviṃśati: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: catur-viṃśati (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: संख्यावाचक (numeral) अव्ययवत्; ‘twenty-four’ (used to qualify)

• mūrtayaḥ: forms / images
• mūrtayaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mūrti (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

Speaker

Brahmā (in Brahma–Nārada dialogue; implied by section context)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A full-year ritual wheel: a circular calendar (saṃvatsara-cakra) with Ekādaśī highlighted each month; around it, 24 Viṣṇu icons; devotees performing monthly worship, lamps and tulasī prominent.

Characters & Entities

• Ekādaśī
• Viṣṇu (twenty-four forms)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Time itself becomes sacred when aligned with dharma—tithis and especially Ekādaśī guide steady, year-long worship.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The teaching appears within the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra-māhātmya narrative stream, where Śāligrāma-centered devotion is celebrated.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Observance of Ekādaśī and worship of the twenty-four Viṣṇu forms through the yearly calendar.