Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 71

Devanagari script

धन्योऽहं देवि सुश्रोणि यत्पश्यावो जगत्पतिम् । अयं धाता विधाता च लोकानां प्रभुरीश्वरः

Transliteration

dhanyo'haṃ devi suśroṇi yatpaśyāvo jagatpatim | ayaṃ dhātā vidhātā ca lokānāṃ prabhurīśvaraḥ

Translation

“ദേവി, സുഷ്രോണി! ജഗത്പതിയെ നാം ദർശിച്ചതിനാൽ ഞാനും ധന്യൻ. ഇദ്ദേഹം ധാതാവും വിധാതാവും—ലോകങ്ങളുടെ പ്രഭു, ഈശ്വരൻ.”

Word by Word

• dhanyaḥ: fortunate/blessed
• dhanyaḥ: Kartṛ-samānādhikaraṇa (Subject complement)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: dhanya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; विशेषण

• aham: I
• aham: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: उत्तमपुरुष-सर्वनाम, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• devi: O goddess
• devi: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: devī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, संबोधन (8th/Vocative), एकवचन

• suśroṇi: O fair-hipped one
• suśroṇi: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: suśroṇī (प्रातिपदिक; su + śroṇī)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, संबोधन (8th/Vocative), एकवचन; कर्मधारयः (सु-श्रोणिः = ‘fair-hipped’)

• yat: because/that
• yat: Sambandha (Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय-सम्बन्धबोधक (conjunction/relative particle) ‘because/that’

• paśyāvaḥ: we two saw
• paśyāvaḥ: Kriyā (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √dṛś (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), उत्तमपुरुष (1st person), द्विवचन; परस्मैपद

• jagatpatim: the Lord of the world
• jagatpatim: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: jagatpati (प्रातिपदिक; jagat + pati)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (jagataḥ patiḥ = ‘lord of the world’)

• ayam: this (he)
• ayam: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: idam (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• dhātā: the creator/sustainer
• dhātā: Kartṛ-samānādhikaraṇa (Apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dhātṛ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• vidhātā: the ordainer
• vidhātā: Kartṛ-samānādhikaraṇa (Apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vidhātṛ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक-अव्यय (conjunction)

• lokānām: of the worlds
• lokānām: Sambandha (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: loka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), बहुवचन

• prabhuḥ: the master
• prabhuḥ: Kartṛ-samānādhikaraṇa (Apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prabhu (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• īśvaraḥ: the Lord
• īśvaraḥ: Kartṛ-samānādhikaraṇa (Apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: īśvara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

Speaker

Hari (Viṣṇu)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotional proclamation of blessedness: the speaker (in the verse’s voice) addresses the Goddess and points to the Lord as cosmic ruler—an iconographic moment of ‘stuti with gesture’ (hasta-mudrā indicating the deity).

Characters & Entities

• Hari (Viṣṇu)
• Devī (Lakṣmī)
• Jagatpati (epithet of the addressed deity—Bhairava/Mahākāla in context)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Darśana and praise of the Supreme Lord elevate even the exalted; recognizing divine sovereignty is itself liberation-oriented wisdom.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Kāśī’s Mahātmya is supported by presenting its associated deity as the universal Lord worthy of worship by all.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Implicitly, stuti (praise) following darśana is upheld as a devotional response.