Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 12

Devanagari script

दर्शनात्तस्य तीर्थस्य पापराशिर्विलीयते । स्नानमात्रेण राजेन्द्र ब्रह्महत्यां व्यपोहति

Transliteration

darśanāttasya tīrthasya pāparāśirvilīyate | snānamātreṇa rājendra brahmahatyāṃ vyapohati

Translation

ആ തീർത്ഥത്തിന്റെ ദർശനം മാത്രത്താൽ പാപസമൂഹം ലയിക്കുന്നു. ഹേ രാജേന്ദ്രാ! സ്നാനം മാത്രം ചെയ്താലും ബ്രഹ്മഹത്യാപാപം പോലും അകലുന്നു.

Word by Word

• दर्शनात्: from (mere) seeing
• दर्शनात्: Apadana (Cause/Source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: दर्शन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; पञ्चमी (5th/अपादान), एकवचन

• तस्य: of that
• तस्य: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग; षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), एकवचन

• तीर्थस्य: of the sacred ford
• तीर्थस्य: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), एकवचन

• पापराशिः: the heap of sins
• पापराशिः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाप (प्रातिपदिक) + राशि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा (1st/कर्ता), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (पापानां राशिः)

• विलीयते: dissolves, disappears
• विलीयते: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि + ली (धातु)
• Form: लट् (present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; आत्मनेपद

• स्नानमात्रेण: by bathing alone
• स्नानमात्रेण: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्नान (प्रातिपदिक) + मात्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; तृतीया (3rd/करण), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (स्नानस्य मात्रेण = by bathing alone)

• राजेन्द्र: O lord of kings
• राजेन्द्र: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजेन्द्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; सम्बोधन (8th), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (राज्ञाम् इन्द्रः)

• ब्रह्महत्याम्: the sin of brahmin-slaying
• ब्रह्महत्याम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्रह्मन् (प्रातिपदिक) + हत्या (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; द्वितीया (2nd/कर्म), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (ब्रह्मणः हत्या)

• व्यपोहति: removes, dispels
• व्यपोहति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि + अप + ऊह्/अपोह् (धातु)
• Form: लट् (present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

Speaker

Sūta (deduced)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Agnitīrtha

Type: tirtha

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: King (rājendra)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee beholds Agnitīrtha midstream; dark ‘mass of sins’ is visualized as dissolving mist; the bather emerges radiant, symbolically freed even from brahmahatyā.

Characters & Entities

• Agnitīrtha (implied from previous verse)
• Brahmahatyā

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Sacred places are moral-spiritual technologies: darśana and snāna, done with faith, function as powerful purification.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

That tīrtha referenced in-context—Agnitīrtha in the Revā Khaṇḍa sequence.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Darśana (visiting/seeing the tīrtha) and snāna (ritual bath) as purificatory acts.