Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 11

Devanagari script

दारिद्र्यव्याधिमरणबन्धनव्यसनानि च । एतानि चैव पापस्य फलानीति मतिर्मम

Transliteration

dāridryavyādhimaraṇabandhanavyasanāni ca | etāni caiva pāpasya phalānīti matirmama

Translation

ദാരിദ്ര്യം, രോഗം, മരണം, ബന്ധനം, വിവിധ ദുരിതങ്ങൾ—ഇവയൊക്കെയും പാപഫലങ്ങളാണെന്ന് എന്റെ ദൃഢമതം.

Word by Word

• दारिद्र्य-व्याधि-मरण-बन्धन-व्यसनानि: poverty, disease, death, bondage, and calamities
• दारिद्र्य-व्याधि-मरण-बन्धन-व्यसनानि: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: दारिद्र्य (प्रातिपदिक) + व्याधि (प्रातिपदिक) + मरण (प्रातिपदिक) + बन्धन (प्रातिपदिक) + व्यसन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; इतरेतर-द्वन्द्वः (समाहारार्थे)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चय (conjunction)

• एतानि: these
• एतानि: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: एतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; सर्वनाम

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चय (conjunction)

• एव: indeed/just
• एव: Sambandha (Discourse particle/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव (अव्यय)
• Form: अवधारण (emphatic particle)

• पापस्य: of sin
• पापस्य: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन

• फलानि: fruits/results
• फलानि: Karta (Predicate nominative/प्रथमा)
• Type: Noun
• Root: फल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन

• इति: thus
• इति: Sambandha (Quotation marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति (अव्यय)
• Form: उद्धरण/समाप्तिसूचक (quotative particle)

• मतिः: opinion/understanding
• मतिः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मति (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• मम: my
• मम: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

Speaker

Unspecified narrator within Revā Khaṇḍa (deductively: a Purāṇic narrator addressing a royal listener, continued as 'narādhipa/nṛpa' in following verses)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A didactic tableau: symbolic figures of poverty, illness, death, bondage, and calamity shown as shadows trailing a sinner, contrasted with the calm promise of purification.

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

It teaches karmic causality: sinful actions mature into suffering such as poverty, illness, bondage, and distress.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The broader passage belongs to the Revā (Narmadā) tīrtha context, preparing for the praise of a specific Devatīrtha described in the next verses.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No direct rite is prescribed here; it frames why purification and tīrtha-based practices become meaningful.