Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 26

Devanagari script

सत्वरं गत्वरं सर्वं यच्चैतद्भवतेक्षितम् । दैनंदिनप्रलयतः सृजामि च पुनः पुनः

Transliteration

satvaraṃ gatvaraṃ sarvaṃ yaccaitadbhavatekṣitam | dainaṃdinapralayataḥ sṛjāmi ca punaḥ punaḥ

Translation

“നീ കാണുന്നതെല്ലാം അതിവേഗം കടന്നുപോയി നശിക്കുന്നതാണ്. ദിനംപ്രതി സംഭവിക്കുന്ന പ്രളയത്തിനു ശേഷം ഞാൻ അതിനെ വീണ്ടും വീണ്ടും സൃഷ്ടിക്കുന്നു.”

Word by Word

• sa-tvaram: quickly, hastily
• sa-tvaram: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: sa (सह/सम् उपसर्गवत्) + tvara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्ययीभावसमासः; क्रियाविशेषणम् (adverb) “सत्वरम्” = त्वरया सह (with haste)

• gatvaram: transient, perishable
• gatvaram: Visheshana (Adjective of sarvam/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: gatvara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; विशेषण (perishable/going away)

• sarvam: everything
• sarvam: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन

• yat: which
• yat: Sambandha (Relative/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; सम्बन्ध-सर्वनाम (relative pronoun)

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (Conjunction/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयार्थक-अव्ययम् (conjunction)

• etat: this
• etat: Karman (Apposition to yat/sarvam)
• Type: Noun
• Root: etad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• bhavatā: by you
• bhavatā: Kartr/Agent (Agent of seeing/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhavat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd), एकवचन; आदरार्थ-प्रातिपदिक (honorific ‘you’)

• īkṣitam: seen
• īkṣitam: Karman (Object as participial predicate/कर्म)
• Type: Verb
• Root: īkṣ (ईक्ष् धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; “seen”

• dainaṃdina-pralayataḥ: from the daily dissolution
• dainaṃdina-pralayataḥ: Apadana/Hetu (Source/Cause/अपादान/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dina (प्रातिपदिक) + dina (प्रातिपदिक) + pralaya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th), एकवचन; तत्पुरुषः—“दैनंदिनः प्रलयः” (daily dissolution) + तसिल्/तः (ablative)

• sṛjāmi: I create
• sṛjāmi: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: sṛj (सृज् धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), परस्मैपद, उत्तमपुरुष (1st), एकवचन

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (Conjunction/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयार्थक-अव्ययम् (conjunction)

• punaḥ: again
• punaḥ: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: punaḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: कालवाचक-अव्ययम् (adverb of repetition)

• punaḥ: again and again
• punaḥ: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: punaḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: पुनरुक्ति-बलार्थम् (repetition for emphasis)

Speaker

Brahmā

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (contextual teaching for pilgrims)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Śivaśarman (and gaṇas as witnesses)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Brahmā explains that everything seen is swiftly perishing; from daily dissolution he recreates the worlds again and again—cosmic cycles shown as dissolving and re-forming mandalas.

Characters & Entities

• Brahmā
• Pralaya

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Recognize impermanence: the world is transient and cyclic; this insight supports vairāgya (detachment) and pursuit of the imperishable.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Not directly named in this verse, but it occurs within the Kāśī-khaṇḍa’s exaltation of Kāśī as a liberating sacred landscape.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; it is a cosmological and philosophical instruction.