Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 22

Devanagari script

गताश्च वणिजः सर्वे यथास्थानं सुदुःखिताः । स दैत्यो घातितो राम देवैः सुरभयंकरः

Transliteration

gatāśca vaṇijaḥ sarve yathāsthānaṃ suduḥkhitāḥ | sa daityo ghātito rāma devaiḥ surabhayaṃkaraḥ

Translation

ಎಲ್ಲ ವಣಿಜರೂ ಅತ್ಯಂತ ದುಃಖಿತರಾಗಿ ತಮ್ಮ ತಮ್ಮ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳಿಗೆ ತೆರಳಿದರು. ಓ ರಾಮ, ದೇವರಿಗೂ ಭಯಂಕರನಾಗಿದ್ದ ಆ ದೈತ್ಯನು ದೇವತೆಗಳಿಂದ ಹತನಾದನು.

Word by Word

• gatāḥ: gone, departed
• gatāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता) (with implied copula)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √gam (धातु) → gata (कृदन्त/प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; past passive participle used adjectivally

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha/Connector (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक अव्यय (conjunction)

• vaṇijaḥ: merchants
• vaṇijaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vaṇij (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन

• sarve: all
• sarve: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival modifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; विशेषण (qualifier)

• yathāsthānam: to their respective places / in proper place
• yathāsthānam: Adhikaraṇa (Locative sense/अधिकरण) (adverbial)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yathā + sthāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्ययीभावसमास; अव्ययवत् प्रयोगः (adverbial)

• suduḥkhitāḥ: very distressed
• suduḥkhitāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival modifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: su + duḥkhita (प्रातिपदिक; √duḥkh/duḥkha + ita)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; विशेषण

• saḥ: he
• saḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• daityaḥ: the demon
• daityaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता) (apposition to saḥ)
• Type: Noun
• Root: daitya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन

• ghātitaḥ: slain, killed
• ghātitaḥ: Karma (Object/कर्म) (in passive construction)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √han (धातु) → ghātita (कृदन्त/प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (णिच् causative + क्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; past passive participle

• rāma: O Rama
• rāma: Sambodhana (Vocative/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: rāma (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th), एकवचन

• devaiḥ: by the gods
• devaiḥ: Karana / Agent in passive (करण/कर्तृ)
• Type: Noun
• Root: deva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd), बहुवचन; करण/कर्तृ-निर्देश (agent in passive)

• surabhayaṃkaraḥ: terror-causing to the gods
• surabhayaṃkaraḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival modifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sura + bhayaṃkara (प्रातिपदिक: bhaya + √kṛ (धातु) → kara)
• Form: तत्पुरुषसमास (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष: surāṇāṃ bhayaṃkaraḥ); पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; विशेषण (of daityaḥ)

Speaker

Dharmāraṇya-kṣetra Adhidevatā (the presiding deity of Dharmāraṇya)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Dīrghikā (sacred tank) of the locale (name not specified in given verses)

Type: kund

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Rāma

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A desolate trade-route and abandoned settlement; merchants departing with downcast faces; in the background, devas’ victory over a fearsome daitya is implied rather than shown—smoke of battle fading, weapons lowered.

Characters & Entities

• Rāma
• Daitya
• Devas
• Merchants (Vaṇijaḥ)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Adharma disrupts both spiritual and social life; divine victory is a precondition for the return of prosperity and worship.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Dharmāraṇya-kṣetra, shown affecting even merchants and settlement patterns.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; it narrates the consequences of fear and the slaying of the daitya.