Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 32

Devanagari script

प्राजापत्यायुतं चापि तीर्थयात्रापरायणा । अष्टषष्टिषु तीर्थेषु यानि तीर्थानि भूतले । तेषां संदर्शनात्सम्यक्ततः शुद्धिमवाप्स्यसि

Transliteration

prājāpatyāyutaṃ cāpi tīrthayātrāparāyaṇā | aṣṭaṣaṣṭiṣu tīrtheṣu yāni tīrthāni bhūtale | teṣāṃ saṃdarśanātsamyaktataḥ śuddhimavāpsyasi

Translation

«ແລະຍັງຈົ່ງປະຕິບັດຕະປະ Prājāpatya ໜຶ່ງໝື່ນ ດ້ວຍໃຈອຸທິດໃນການເດີນທາງຈາລິກສະຖານທີ່ສັກສິດ. ໃນໂລກນີ້ມີທີຣຖະ 68 ແຫ່ງ; ເມື່ອເຈົ້າໄດ້ເຫັນພວກນັ້ນຢ່າງຖືກຕ້ອງ ເຈົ້າຈະໄດ້ຮັບຄວາມບໍລິສຸດ»។

Word by Word

• prājāpatya-āyutam: a prājāpatya ayuta (ten-thousand)
• prājāpatya-āyutam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: prājāpatya (प्रातिपदिक) + āyuta (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष-समास (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः: प्राजापत्यस्य आयुतम्)

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

• api: also
• api: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: api (अव्यय)
• Form: निपात (particle)

• tīrtha-yātrā-parāyaṇā: devoted to pilgrimage to sacred places
• tīrtha-yātrā-parāyaṇā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: tīrtha (प्रातिपदिक) + yātrā (प्रातिपदिक) + parāyaṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष-समास (तत्पुरुषः: तीर्थयात्रायां परायणा)

• aṣṭa-ṣaṣṭiṣu: in the sixty-eight
• aṣṭa-ṣaṣṭiṣu: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: aṣṭa (प्रातिपदिक) + ṣaṣṭi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग (संख्या), सप्तमी (7th), बहुवचन; द्वन्द्व-समास (संख्याद्वन्द्वः: अष्ट च षष्टिः)

• tīrtheṣu: in (the) sacred places
• tīrtheṣu: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tīrtha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), बहुवचन

• yāni: which
• yāni: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (यद्-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), बहुवचन; सर्वनाम

• tīrthāni: sacred places
• tīrthāni: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tīrtha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), बहुवचन

• bhūtale: on the earth
• bhūtale: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhūtala (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन

• teṣām: of those
• teṣām: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (तद्-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग/पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), बहुवचन; सर्वनाम

• saṃdarśanāt: from seeing (them)
• saṃdarśanāt: Hetu (Cause/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃdarśana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th), एकवचन

• samyak: properly
• samyak: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: samyak (अव्यय)
• Form: क्रियाविशेषण-अव्यय (adverb)

• tataḥ: thereupon/therefrom
• tataḥ: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tataḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (adverb: तस्मात्/thereupon)

• śuddhim: purity
• śuddhim: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śuddhi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन

• avāpsyasi: you will obtain
• avāpsyasi: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √āp (आप्) उपसर्ग: ava-
• Form: लृट् (Simple Future), मध्यमपुरुष (2nd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

Speaker

Gautama Ṛṣi

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Aṣṭaṣaṣṭi-tīrtha-saṅgraha (Sixty-eight tīrthas)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A pilgrim-teacher extols the merit of beholding the sixty-eight tīrthas; a mental map of India appears as a garland of sacred fords, with the pilgrim’s vow shining like a flame of tapas.

Characters & Entities

• Gautama
• Prājāpatya (penance category)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Purification is achieved through both disciplined expiation and sacred travel—duly visiting tīrthas transforms the pilgrim.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse glorifies the broader tīrtha-network—‘sixty-eight tīrthas on earth’—as collectively purifying through proper darśana.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Ten thousand Prājāpatya penances are prescribed, together with devotion to tīrtha-yātrā and proper darśana of the sixty-eight tīrthas.