Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 100

Devanagari script

मन्मना मम भक्तश्च मयि सर्वार्पितक्रियः । यथा मोक्षमिहाप्नोति न तथान्यत्रकुत्रचित्

Transliteration

manmanā mama bhaktaśca mayi sarvārpitakriyaḥ | yathā mokṣamihāpnoti na tathānyatrakutracit

Translation

എവന്റെ മനസ് എന്നിൽ സ്ഥിരമാണോ, എവൻ എന്റെ ഭക്തനോ, തന്റെ എല്ലാ പ്രവർത്തികളും എന്നിൽ അർപ്പിക്കുന്നവനോ—അവൻ ഇവിടെ കാശിയിൽ, മറ്റെവിടെയും ലഭിക്കാത്തവിധം, മോക്ഷം പ്രാപിക്കുന്നു।

Word by Word

• मत्-मनाः: whose mind is fixed on me
• मत्-मनाः: Karta-predicative (Qualifier of subject)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मत् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) + मनस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन; बहुव्रीहि-समास (यस्य मनः मयि/मयि एव)

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

• भक्तः: devotee
• भक्तः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भक्त (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √भज्)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past participle used as noun)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयार्थक-अव्यय (conjunction)

• मयि: in me
• मयि: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम; सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन

• सर्व-अर्पित-क्रियः: one who has offered all actions (to me)
• सर्व-अर्पित-क्रियः: Karta-predicative (Qualifier of subject)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व (प्रातिपदिक) + अर्पित (कृदन्त; √अर्प्, क्त) + क्रिया (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष-समास (सर्वाः क्रियाः मयि अर्पिताः यस्य)

• यथा: as/how
• यथा: Sambandha (Clause linker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; प्रकार/उपमानार्थक (comparative/conjunctive adverb)

• मोक्षम्: liberation
• मोक्षम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्ष (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative/2nd), एकवचन

• इह: here (in Kāśī/this world)
• इह: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इह (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; देशवाचक (here)

• आप्नोति: attains
• आप्नोति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: आप् (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), प्रथम-पुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• न: not
• न: Sambandha (Negation)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निषेधार्थक (negation particle)

• तथा: in that way/so
• तथा: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; प्रकारवाचक (thus/in that way)

• अन्यत्र: elsewhere
• अन्यत्र: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अन्यत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; देशवाचक (elsewhere)

• कुत्रचित्: anywhere at all
• कुत्रचित्: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: कुत्रचित् (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; अनिश्चित-स्थानवाचक (indefinite locative adverb)

Speaker

Śiva (deduced from immediate context of Tāraka-Brahman teaching in Kāśī)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī/Avimukta

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: addressed audience within the narrative (dvija/sages implied)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee in Kāśī performing daily acts—bathing, offering flowers, lighting lamps—while mentally absorbed in Śiva; the city’s temples and ghāṭs frame the scene, suggesting ‘all actions offered’.

Characters & Entities

• Śiva
• Kāśī (implied)
• Mokṣa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Single-point devotion and surrender of all actions to Śiva culminate in liberation, with Kāśī extolled as uniquely potent for mokṣa.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Kāśī/Avimukta, the famed liberating sacred geography of the Skanda Purāṇa.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

An inner discipline is prescribed: offering all actions to Śiva (sarvārpita-kriyā) and steady devotion (bhakti).