Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 88

Devanagari script

रोगी रोगाद्विमुक्तः स्याच्छाम्यन्ति परमापदः । स्वस्थे सहस्रगुणितमातुरे शतसंमितम्

Transliteration

rogī rogādvimuktaḥ syācchāmyanti paramāpadaḥ | svasthe sahasraguṇitamāture śatasaṃmitam

Translation

രോഗി രോഗത്തിൽ നിന്ന് വിമുക്തനാകും; അത്യന്താപത്തുകൾ ശമിക്കും. ആരോഗ്യസ്ഥിതിയിൽ ചെയ്താൽ പുണ്യം സഹസ്രഗുണം; രോഗാവസ്ഥയിൽ ചെയ്താൽ ശതഗുണം എന്നു കണക്കാക്കുന്നു.

Word by Word

• रोगी: a sick person
• रोगी: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: रोगिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1), एकवचन — Nominative singular

• रोगात्: from disease
• रोगात्: Apadana (Source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: रोग (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5), एकवचन — Ablative singular

• विमुक्तः: freed
• विमुक्तः: Karta-predicative (Predicate adjective)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वि√मुच् (धातु) + मुक्त (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1), एकवचन — Nominative singular; भूतकृदन्त (PPP)

• स्यात्: would become
• स्यात्: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √अस् (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ्, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपदम् — Optative, 3rd person singular

• शाम्यन्ति: subside
• शाम्यन्ति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √शम् (धातु)
• Form: लट् (वर्तमान), प्रथमपुरुष, बहुवचन; परस्मैपदम् — Present indicative, 3rd person plural

• परमापदः: great calamities
• परमापदः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: परमा + आपद् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1), बहुवचन — Nominative plural; कर्मधारय (परमा आपदः)

• स्वस्थे: in the case of a healthy person
• स्वस्थे: Adhikarana (Condition/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्वस्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7), एकवचन — Locative singular; ‘स्वस्थे’ = “in/for a healthy (person/state)”

• सहस्रगुणितम्: multiplied a thousandfold
• सहस्रगुणितम्: Karta-predicative (Predicate/measure)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सहस्र + गुणित (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन — Nom./Acc. singular; तत्पुरुष (सहस्रेण गुणितम्)

• आतुरे: in the case of an ill person
• आतुरे: Adhikarana (Condition/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: आतुर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7), एकवचन — Locative singular; “in the case of a sick person”

• शतसंमितम्: reckoned as a hundredfold
• शतसंमितम्: Karta-predicative (Predicate/measure)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शत + संमित (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन — Nom./Acc. singular; तत्पुरुष (शतेन संमितम् = measured by a hundred)

Speaker

Narratorial/ritual-instruction voice

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Revā-associated dāna-mahātmya (general)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: mahīpāla (king)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A sick devotee offering a gift with effort; a healing aura spreads, physicians and family look relieved; storm clouds of calamity disperse; a scale motif hints at hundredfold vs thousandfold merit.

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Charity is recommended proactively; dharma done before crisis is praised as yielding greater spiritual potency.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

No single tirtha is named in this verse; it continues the Revā Khaṇḍa phalaśruti for the Vaitaraṇī gift-rite.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

It specifies comparative merit: performing the donation while healthy yields greater merit than doing so only when afflicted.