Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 58

Devanagari script

पञ्चस्रोताः स्थिता तत्र पञ्चपातकनाशनी । नदीनां प्रवरा सा तु ब्रह्मभूता सरस्वती

Transliteration

pañcasrotāḥ sthitā tatra pañcapātakanāśanī | nadīnāṃ pravarā sā tu brahmabhūtā sarasvatī

Translation

ທີ່ນັ້ນ ນາງສະຖິດຢູ່ພ້ອມດ້ວຍສາຍນ້ຳຫ້າສາຍ ອັນທຳລາຍບາບໃຫຍ່ຫ້າປະການ. ໃນບັນດາແມ່ນ້ຳທັງຫມົດ ນາງເປັນຜູ້ປະເສີດສຸດ—ສະຣັສວະຕີ ຜູ້ມີສະພາບເປັນພຣະພຣະຫມັນ (Brahman).

Word by Word

• pañca-srotāḥ: five-streamed (ones)
• pañca-srotāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: pañca (प्रातिपदिक) + srotas (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; द्विगु-समासः (संख्यापूर्वकः)

• sthitāḥ: standing/situated
• sthitāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sthā (धातु) → sthita (कृदन्त)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; विशेषणम्

• tatra: there
• tatra: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatra (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; देशवाचक क्रियाविशेषणम् (locative adverb)

• pañca-pātaka-nāśanī: destroyer of the five great sins
• pañca-pātaka-nāśanī: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: pañca (प्रातिपदिक) + pātaka (प्रातिपदिक) + nāśanī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (पञ्चपातकानां नाशिनी)

• nadīnām: of rivers
• nadīnām: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nadī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), बहुवचन

• pravarā: the foremost
• pravarā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: pravara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; विशेषणम्

• sā: she/that (river)
• sā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• tu: indeed/but
• tu: Sambandha (Discourse particle/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निपातः (emphatic/contrast particle)

• brahma-bhūtā: become Brahman; of Brahman-nature
• brahma-bhūtā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: brahman (प्रातिपदिक) + bhūta (कृदन्त/प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त) ‘bhūta’; स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; तत्पुरुषः (ब्रह्मरूपा/ब्रह्मस्वरूपा)

• sarasvatī: Sarasvatī (river)
• sarasvatī: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sarasvatī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

Speaker

Aśarīriṇī Vāk (continuing instruction)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Sarasvatī (Prabhāsa)

Type: ghat

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Rāma

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Sarasvatī as a radiant river-goddess with veena stands at a confluence-like spread of five channels; pilgrims bathe; the water glows with scriptural light, suggesting Brahman-nature.

Characters & Entities

• Sarasvatī

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Contact with a truly sanctified tīrtha is portrayed as spiritually transformative, capable of dissolving even the gravest moral burdens.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Sarasvatī at Prabhāsa, described as five-streamed (pañca-srotas).

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Implicitly, tīrtha-sevā such as snāna (ritual bathing) in Sarasvatī, since she is declared destroyer of the five great sins.