Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 6

Devanagari script

पतिव्रतेयं कल्याणी लोपामुद्रा सधर्मिणी । तवांगच्छायया तुल्या यत्कथापुण्यकारिणी

Transliteration

pativrateyaṃ kalyāṇī lopāmudrā sadharmiṇī | tavāṃgacchāyayā tulyā yatkathāpuṇyakāriṇī

Translation

ഈ കല്യാണിയായ ലോപാമുദ്ര പതിവ്രതയും, നിങ്ങളോടൊപ്പം ധർമ്മപഥം അനുസരിക്കുന്ന സഹധർമ്മിണിയുമാണ്. അവൾ നിങ്ങളുടെ ദേഹഛായയെപ്പോലെ; അവളുടെ കഥയും പുണ്യദായിനിയാണ്.

Word by Word

• pati-vratā: a devoted wife
• pati-vratā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pati (प्रातिपदिक) + vratā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा-विभक्तिः; एकवचनम्; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः—‘पतेः व्रता’ (devoted to husband)

• iyam: this (woman)
• iyam: Karta (Apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: idam (इदम्-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा-विभक्तिः; एकवचनम्; सर्वनाम

• kalyāṇī: auspicious, virtuous
• kalyāṇī: Visheshana (Adjectival)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kalyāṇī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा-विभक्तिः; एकवचनम्; विशेषणम्

• lopāmudrā: Lopāmudrā
• lopāmudrā: Karta (Apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: lopāmudrā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा-विभक्तिः; एकवचनम्; व्यक्तिनाम

• sa-dharmiṇī: a true partner in dharma
• sa-dharmiṇī: Visheshana (Adjectival)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sa (अव्यय/उपसर्गार्थ ‘सह’) + dharmiṇī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा-विभक्तिः; एकवचनम्; कर्मधारयः—‘सधर्मिणी’ = ‘समानधर्मयुक्ता/सहधर्मचारिणी’

• tava: your
• tava: Sambandha (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (युष्मद्-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी-विभक्तिः; एकवचनम्; सर्वनाम

• aṅga-chāyayā: by/with the shadow of (your) body
• aṅga-chāyayā: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: aṅga (प्रातिपदिक) + chāyā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; तृतीया-विभक्तिः (3rd/Instrumental); एकवचनम्; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः—‘अङ्गस्य छाया’

• tulyā: equal to, comparable
• tulyā: Pratijna (Predicate)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: tulya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा-विभक्तिः; एकवचनम्; विशेषणम् (predicate adjective)

• yat-kathā-puṇya-kāriṇī: whose story brings merit
• yat-kathā-puṇya-kāriṇī: Visheshana (Adjectival)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: yat (यद्-प्रातिपदिक) + kathā (प्रातिपदिक) + puṇya (प्रातिपदिक) + kāriṇī (कृ धातु-आधारित, कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा-विभक्तिः; एकवचनम्; बहुपद-तत्पुरुषसमासः—‘यस्याः कथा पुण्यं करोति’ (whose story produces merit)

Speaker

Agastya (deduced, addressing Skanda/another sage within Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Śaunaka and sages (frame typical; not explicit)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Lopāmudrā stands or sits beside her husband-sage, close as his shadow, embodying devoted companionship; the scene conveys quiet strength and purity rather than spectacle.

Characters & Entities

• Lopāmudrā

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Pativrata-dharma and shared righteousness elevate both household life and spiritual attainment; even remembrance of such lives yields merit.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Kāśī is the broader frame, though this verse itself praises Lopāmudrā’s virtue rather than naming a tirtha.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Implicitly, śravaṇa (hearing) of sacred kathā is praised as puṇya-producing.