Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 7

Devanagari script

गोसहस्रस्य दत्तस्य कुरुक्षेत्रे च यत्फलम् । तत्फलं समवाप्नोति संगालेश्वरदर्शनात्

Transliteration

gosahasrasya dattasya kurukṣetre ca yatphalam | tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti saṃgāleśvaradarśanāt

Translation

ಕುರುಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾವಿರ ಗೋವುಗಳನ್ನು ದಾನ ಮಾಡಿದ ಫಲ ಯಾವದೋ, ಅದೇ ಫಲವು ಕೇವಲ ಸಂಗಾಲೇಶ್ವರ ದರ್ಶನದಿಂದಲೇ ದೊರೆಯುತ್ತದೆ.

Word by Word

• go-sahasrasya: of (the gift of) a thousand cows
• go-sahasrasya: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: go (प्रातिपदिक) + sahasra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (सहस्र), षष्ठी, एकवचन; 'of a thousand cows'

• dattasya: given
• dattasya: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √dā (धातु) → datta (कृदन्त)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त/PPP), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी, एकवचन; qualifying implied "dānam"

• kurukṣetre: in Kurukṣetra
• kurukṣetre: Adhikaraṇa (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kuru-kṣetra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन

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

• yat: which
• yat: Karta (Subject/कर्ता) - qualifier
• Type: Adjective
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; "phalam"-विशेषण

• phalam: fruit, result
• phalam: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: phala (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• tat: that
• tat: Karma (Object/कर्म) - qualifier
• Type: Adjective
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; "phalam"-विशेषण

• phalam: fruit, result
• phalam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: phala (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• samavāpnoti: obtains, attains
• samavāpnoti: Kriyā (Main verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: sam-ava-√āp (धातु) → samavāpnoti
• Form: लट् (वर्तमान/Present), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद

• saṃgāla-īśvara-darśanāt: from seeing Saṃgāleśvara
• saṃgāla-īśvara-darśanāt: Hetu (Cause/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃgāla (प्रातिपदिक) + īśvara (प्रातिपदिक) + darśana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (ablative), एकवचन

Speaker

Narrator (māhātmya-style phalaśruti; exact speaker not explicit in snippet)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Saṅgāleśvara

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Not specified

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee beholds the Saṅgāleśvara liṅga; in a symbolic vignette, a thousand cows and Kurukṣetra’s sacred plain appear as a faint backdrop, indicating ‘dāna-sāmya’ through darśana.

Characters & Entities

• Saṅgāleśvara
• Kurukṣetra
• Go-dāna (cow-gift)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Sacred sight (darśana) at a mahā-tīrtha can equal great acts of charity, showing the concentrated power of holy places.

Which specific holy site (Tīrtha) is glorified here?

Saṅgāleśvara at Prabhāsakṣetra, compared explicitly with Kurukṣetra.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Darśana of Saṅgāleśvara is presented as a merit-bearing act; go-dāna is referenced as a benchmark.