Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 73
Devanagari script
एवं षोडशभिश्चंद्रः स्तोतव्यो नामभिः क्रमात्
Transliteration
evaṃ ṣoḍaśabhiścaṃdraḥ stotavyo nāmabhiḥ kramāt
Translation
ដូច្នេះ ព្រះចន្ទ (ចន្ទ្រ) គួរត្រូវបានសរសើរតាមលំដាប់ ដោយនាមទាំងដប់ប្រាំមួយ។
Word by Word
एवम्thus
एवम्:
Sambandha (Adverbial/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएवम् (अव्यय)
Formप्रकारार्थक-अव्यय (adverb: ‘thus’)
षोडशभिःwith sixteen
षोडशभिः:
Karana (Instrument/करण)
TypeAdjective
Rootषोडशन् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formविशेषण-प्रयोगः; नपुंसकलिङ्ग/पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), बहुवचन
चand
च:
Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formसमुच्चयार्थक-अव्यय (conjunction)
चन्द्रःthe Moon
चन्द्रः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootचन्द्र (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन
स्तोतव्यःis to be praised
स्तोतव्यः:
Vidhi (Obligation predicate/विधेय)
TypeAdjective
Rootस्तु (धातु) + तव्यत् (कृत्प्रत्यय)
Formतव्यत्-कृदन्त (gerundive/future passive participle); पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; विधेय-विशेषणम्
नामभिःby names
नामभिः:
Karana (Instrument/करण)
TypeNoun
Rootनामन् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), बहुवचन
क्रमात्in sequence
क्रमात्:
Sambandha (Adverbial/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootक्रम (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपञ्चमी-एकवचनरूपेण अव्ययीभाववत् (adverbial ablative: ‘in order/successively’)
Speaker
Brahmā (deduced; Vaiṣṇava-khaṇḍa narration style)
Tirtha Mahatmya
Tirtha: Ayodhyā-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Visual Art Cues
Scene: A restrained devotee in Ayodhyā performs candra-stuti, counting sixteen names on fingers or mālā, with the full moon above and a calm riverbank/ghāṭa ambience.
Characters & Entities
C
CandraṢ
Ṣoḍaśa-nāma (sixteen names)FAQs
Disciplined, ordered praise (kramāt) is itself a form of dharma—training attention and devotion.
Ayodhyā is the sacred context where such prescribed worship is said to yield merit.
Recitation of sixteen epithets of the Moon, in sequence, as a formal stotra component.