Shloka 1
भूमिदान-प्रसङ्गः । काश्यपी-पृथिवी तथा उतथ्य-वरुण-संवादः
Land-gift episode; Pṛthivī Kāśyapī; Utathya–Varuṇa dispute
अपन काल छा | अत-७#-र- चतुस्त्रिंशर्दाधिकशततमो< ध्याय: स्कन्ददेवका धर्मसम्बन्धी रहस्य तथा भगवान् विष्णु और भीष्मजीके द्वारा माहात्म्यका वर्णन स्कन्द उवाच ममाप्यनुमतो धर्मस्तं शृणुध्वं समाहिता: । नीलषण्डस्य शुंगाभ्यां गृहीत्वा मृत्तिकां तु यः:
skanda uvāca | mamāpy anumato dharmas taṃ śṛṇudhvaṃ samāhitāḥ | nīlaṣaṇḍasya śuṅgābhyāṃ gṛhītvā mṛttikāṃ tu yaḥ |
സ്കന്ദൻ പറഞ്ഞു—എനിക്കും അംഗീകൃതമായ ഈ ധർമ്മം കേൾക്കുവിൻ; നിങ്ങൾ സമാഹിതചിത്തരായി ശ്രദ്ധയോടെ ശ്രവിക്കുവിൻ. നീലഷണ്ഡത്തിന്റെ രണ്ടു ‘ശൃംഗ’ (ഉയർന്ന projections) കൊണ്ടു മണ്ണെടുത്തു…
स्कन्द उवाच
Educational Q&A
Skanda introduces a dharma (a sanctioned religious-ethical practice) and urges the listeners to receive it with mental composure and attention, indicating that the instruction concerns a specific meritorious act involving taking clay/earth.
Skanda begins an instructional discourse: he announces that he too endorses a particular dharma and starts describing the qualifying action—someone taking clay with the two ‘horns’/tips of a blue clod or mass—setting up the details that continue in the following verse(s).