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Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 31

Devanagari script

ततो हृष्टमना भूत्वा गृहीत्वा तां चतुर्मुखः । पुनर्वर्षसहस्रांते भूमिपृष्ठमुपागतः । दर्शयामास तां विष्णोरेषा लिंगस्य मूर्धतः

Transliteration

tato hṛṣṭamanā bhūtvā gṛhītvā tāṃ caturmukhaḥ | punarvarṣasahasrāṃte bhūmipṛṣṭhamupāgataḥ | darśayāmāsa tāṃ viṣṇoreṣā liṃgasya mūrdhataḥ

Translation

ແລ້ວຈາກນັ້ນ ພຣະພຣະຫມາຜູ້ມີສີ່ໜ້າ ມີໃຈຍິນດີ ແລະໄດ້ຖືດອກໄມ້ນັ້ນໄວ້. ເມື່ອຄົບພັນປີ ທ່ານກໍກັບມາຮອດຜິວໜ້າແຜ່ນດິນ. ທ່ານໄດ້ສະແດງມັນໃຫ້ພຣະວິດສະນຸ ແລະກ່າວວ່າ: “ນີ້ແມ່ນມາຈາກຍອດຂອງລິງຄະ.”

Word by Word
tataḥthereafter
tataḥ:
Adhikarana (Context/अधिकरण)
TypeIndeclinable
Roottatas (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)
Formअव्यय (क्रियाविशेषण) — ‘ततः’ = तस्मात्/तदनन्तरम् (thereafter/from there)
hṛṣṭa-manāḥwith delighted mind
hṛṣṭa-manāḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeAdjective
Roothṛṣṭa (कृदन्त, √hṛṣ्) + manas (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; विशेषण—हृष्टः मनाः यस्य (whose mind is delighted)
bhūtvāhaving become
bhūtvā:
Kriya (Gerundial action/पूर्वक्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√bhū (धातु)
Formक्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund) — ‘भूत्वा’ (having become)
gṛhītvāhaving taken
gṛhītvā:
Kriya (Gerundial action/पूर्वक्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√grah (धातु)
Formक्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund) — ‘गृहीत्वा’ (having taken)
tāmher/that (garland)
tām:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Roottad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; सर्वनाम
caturmukhaḥBrahmā (the four-faced)
caturmukhaḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootcatur (संख्या) + mukha (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; बहुव्रीहिः—चत्वारि मुखानि यस्य (the four-faced one = Brahmā)
punaragain
punar:
Kriya-visheṣaṇa (Adverbial)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootpunar (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय (क्रियाविशेषण) — पुनः (again)
varṣa-sahasra-anteat the end of a thousand years
varṣa-sahasra-ante:
Adhikarana (Time/कालाधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootvarṣa (प्रातिपदिक) + sahasra (प्रातिपदिक) + anta (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; तत्पुरुषः—वर्षसहस्रस्य अन्ते (at the end of a thousand years)
bhūmi-pṛṣṭhamthe earth’s surface
bhūmi-pṛṣṭham:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootbhūmi (प्रातिपदिक) + pṛṣṭha (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; तत्पुरुषः—भूमेः पृष्ठम् (surface of the earth)
upāgataḥarrived
upāgataḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeVerb
Rootupa-√gam (धातु)
Formक्त (past passive participle used actively); पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — ‘उपागतः’ (having arrived)
darśayāmāsashowed
darśayāmāsa:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√dṛś (धातु) [णिच् causative: darśaya-]
Formलिट् (परस्मैपद, perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन; causative sense—‘दर्शयामास’ (showed)
tāmher/that (garland)
tām:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Roottad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; सर्वनाम
viṣṇoḥof Viṣṇu
viṣṇoḥ:
Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootviṣṇu (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), एकवचन
eṣāthis (she/this one)
eṣā:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootetad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; सर्वनाम
liṅgasyaof the liṅga
liṅgasya:
Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootliṅga (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), एकवचन
mūrdhataḥfrom the top
mūrdhataḥ:
Apadana (Source/अपादान)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootmūrdhan (प्रातिपदिक)
Formतसिल्-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (ablatival adverb) — मूर्धतः (from the top/head)
Speaker

Brahmā (narration)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Brahmā, pleased, holds the flower/garland and returns after a thousand years to earth; he presents it to Viṣṇu as proof it came from the liṅga’s summit.

Characters & Entities
B
Brahmā (Caturmukha)
V
Viṣṇu
Ś
Śiva (as the Liṅga)
K
Ketakī flower

FAQs

Spiritual narratives warn that delight in ‘winning’ can obscure truth; time and effort do not justify an untrue claim.

Not named in this verse; the overarching Arbuda-khaṇḍa frames the region’s Śaiva authority through such liṅga-mahātmyas.

None.

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