Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 43

Devanagari script

एकः सर्वाणि तीर्थानि करोति नृपसत्तम । पश्यत्यन्यो हृषीकेशं चातुर्मास्यं समाहितः

Transliteration

ekaḥ sarvāṇi tīrthāni karoti nṛpasattama | paśyatyanyo hṛṣīkeśaṃ cāturmāsyaṃ samāhitaḥ

Translation

ಹೇ ನೃಪಸತ್ತಮ! ಒಬ್ಬನು ಎಲ್ಲಾ ತೀರ್ಥಗಳನ್ನು ಸಂದರ್ಶಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ; ಮತ್ತೊಬ್ಬನು ಮನಸ್ಸನ್ನು ಏಕಾಗ್ರಗೊಳಿಸಿ ಚಾತುರ್ಮಾಸ್ಯಕಾಲವಿಡೀ ಹೃಷೀಕೇಶನ ದರ್ಶನ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾನೆ।

Word by Word

• एकः: one (person)
• एकः: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: eka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• सर्वाणि: all
• सर्वाणि: Karma (कर्म/Object)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), बहुवचन; विशेषणम्

• तीर्थानि: pilgrimage places
• तीर्थानि: Karma (कर्म/Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tīrtha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), बहुवचन

• करोति: does, performs
• करोति: Kriya (क्रिया/Action)
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन

• नृपसत्तम: O best of kings
• नृपसत्तम: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन/Address)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nṛpa + sattama (प्रातिपदिक; समास)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th/Vocative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (नृपाणां सत्तमः)

• पश्यति: sees
• पश्यति: Kriya (क्रिया/Action)
• Type: Verb
• Root: दृश् (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन

• अन्यः: another (person)
• अन्यः: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: anya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• हृषीकेशम्: Hṛṣīkeśa (Viṣṇu/Kṛṣṇa)
• हृषीकेशम्: Karma (कर्म/Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: hṛṣīkeśa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन

• चातुर्मास्यम्: the four-month observance (Cāturmāsya)
• चातुर्मास्यम्: Karma (कर्म/Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: cāturmāsya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन

• समाहितः: collected, concentrated, composed
• समाहितः: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सम्-आ-धा (धातु) + क्त (प्रत्यय)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त/PPP), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; विशेषणम्

Speaker

Unnamed Purāṇic narrator (contextual speaker within Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Hṛṣīkeśa (Arbuda)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: a king (nṛpa-sattama)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A split scene: on one side, a traveler visiting many rivers and shrines; on the other, a calm devotee seated near the Hṛṣīkeśa temple during monsoon months, receiving darśana—suggesting concentrated merit.

Characters & Entities

• Hṛṣīkeśa
• Tīrthas
• Cāturmāsya

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Focused devotion at a single powerful shrine during a vowed period is exalted alongside (and implicitly above) extensive pilgrimage.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Hṛṣīkeśa, as the central sacred focus during Cāturmāsya.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Maintaining collected attention (samādhāna) and darśana of Hṛṣīkeśa across the four-month Cāturmāsya observance.