Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 91

Devanagari script

विनौषधैर्विना वैद्यैर्विनापथ्यपरिग्रहैः । कालेन निधनं प्राप्तः सूर्यलोके महीयते

Transliteration

vinauṣadhairvinā vaidyairvināpathyaparigrahaiḥ | kālena nidhanaṃ prāptaḥ sūryaloke mahīyate

Translation

ഔഷധങ്ങളില്ലാതെ, വൈദ്യന്മാരില്ലാതെ, പഥ്യനിയമങ്ങൾ സ്വീകരിക്കാതെയും, നിശ്ചിതകാലത്ത് ദേഹത്യാഗം പ്രാപിച്ചാൽ അവൻ സൂര്യലോകത്തിൽ മഹത്വത്തോടെ ആദരിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു.

Word by Word

• विना: without
• विना: Sambandha (Relation marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: विना (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (उपपद/पूर्वसर्गसदृश, ‘without’); तृतीयाविभक्त्यर्थे प्रयोगः

• औषधैः: medicines
• औषधैः: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: औषध (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), बहुवचन

• विना: without
• विना: Sambandha (Relation marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: विना (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (उपपद): ‘without’

• वैद्यैः: physicians
• वैद्यैः: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वैद्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन

• विना: without
• विना: Sambandha (Relation marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: विना (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (उपपद): ‘without’

• पथ्यपरिग्रहैः: observances of proper regimen
• पथ्यपरिग्रहैः: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पथ्य (प्रातिपदिक) + परिग्रह (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (पथ्यस्य परिग्रहः = observance of regimen); पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन

• कालेन: by time
• कालेन: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: काल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया, एकवचन

• निधनम्: death
• निधनम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: निधन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन

• प्राप्तः: having met (it)
• प्राप्तः: Kartṛ (Agent/कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + आप् (धातु) → प्राप्त (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past passive participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; ‘having attained/reached’ (here: ‘having met (death)’)

• सूर्यलोके: in the Sun-world
• सूर्यलोके: Adhikaraṇa (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सूर्य (प्रातिपदिक) + लोक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (सूर्यस्य लोकः); पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन

• महीयते: is honored
• महीयते: Kriyā (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: मह् (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), आत्मनेपद, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; ‘is honored/glorified’

Speaker

Skanda (deduced, Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (contextual) / Sūrya-loka (result)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Agastya and/or sages (contextual)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee, free from medical interventions, lives in dharma; at life’s natural end, a radiant solar chariot or orb receives him, with attendants honoring him in Sūrya-loka.

Characters & Entities

• Sūrya-loka

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Purāṇic dharma links sincere worship with both worldly support and a luminous post-mortem destination.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The teaching belongs to the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī context, though the stated fruit is Sūrya-loka.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No new rite is added; it continues the promise of results for the earlier arghya and nāma worship of Sūrya.