Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 47

Devanagari script

ततो निवारयैतान्मामादित्सून्सौविदल्लकान् । इति श्रुत्वा वचस्तस्याः स कामक्रोधमोहितः

Transliteration

tato nivārayaitānmāmāditsūnsauvidallakān | iti śrutvā vacastasyāḥ sa kāmakrodhamohitaḥ

Translation

അപ്പോൾ അവൾ പറഞ്ഞു—“എന്നെ പിടിക്കുവാൻ ശ്രമിക്കുന്ന ഈ സൗവിദല്ലകരെ തടയുക.” അവളുടെ വാക്കുകൾ കേട്ട് അവൻ കാമവും ക്രോധവും കൊണ്ട് മോഹിതനായി.

Word by Word

• tataḥ: then, thereafter
• tataḥ: Adhikarana (Context/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatas (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय (indeclinable adverb): ‘thereupon/then’

• nivāraya: stop, restrain
• nivāraya: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: ni-√vṛ (धातु)
• Form: लोट् (imperative), मध्यमपुरुष (2nd person), एकवचन (singular); परस्मैपद; causative sense ‘cause to desist/stop’

• etān: these (persons)
• etān: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: etad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masc.), द्वितीया (accusative), बहुवचन (plural)

• mām: me
• mām: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: उत्तमपुरुष-प्रयोग (1st person pronoun), द्वितीया (accusative), एकवचन (singular)

• āditsūn: those intending to seize (me)
• āditsūn: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ā-√dā (धातु) + itsu (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masc.), द्वितीया (accusative), बहुवचन (plural); ‘āditsūn’ = ‘seeking to seize/take’ (agent-noun usage)

• sauvidallakān: the Sauvidallakas (a group/people)
• sauvidallakān: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sauvidallaka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masc.), द्वितीया (accusative), बहुवचन (plural); जाति/समूहवाचक (denoting a class/tribe)

• iti: thus
• iti: Sambandha (Quotation marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: iti (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (quotative particle): ‘thus’

• śrutvā: having heard
• śrutvā: Kriya (पूर्वक्रिया/पूर्वकर्म)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √śru (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund), ‘having heard’

• vacaḥ: the words
• vacaḥ: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vacas (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (neut.), द्वितीया (accusative), एकवचन (singular)

• tasyāḥ: of her
• tasyāḥ: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग (fem.), षष्ठी (genitive), एकवचन (singular)

• saḥ: he
• saḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masc.), प्रथमा (nominative), एकवचन (singular)

• kāma-krodha-mohitaḥ: deluded by desire and anger
• kāma-krodha-mohitaḥ: Karta (Subject complement/कर्तृविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kāma (प्रातिपदिक) + krodha (प्रातिपदिक) + mohita (√muh, क्त-प्रत्यय)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masc.), प्रथमा (nominative), एकवचन (singular); समासः (determinative): ‘kāma-krodhena mohitaḥ’ (deluded by desire and anger)

Speaker

Narrator (within Skanda’s discourse to Agastya, Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Avimukta-Kāśī

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Śaunaka and the Naimiṣāraṇya sages (frame) / addressed as 'muni' within the episode

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A distressed woman appeals for protection, pointing toward aggressors; the asura’s face shows lust and anger as he hears her plea.

Characters & Entities

• Sauvidallaka(s)
• Daityapati (implied)
• Dūtī (implied)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Kāma and krodha together cloud discernment; Purāṇic stories show how such moha makes one act rashly and invite destruction.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse is within the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī framework, but it does not directly praise a site.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None.