Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 22

Devanagari script

नमस्ते भगवन्रुद्र भास्करामिततेजसे । नमो भवाय रुद्राय रसायांबुमयाय ते

Transliteration

namaste bhagavanrudra bhāskarāmitatejase | namo bhavāya rudrāya rasāyāṃbumayāya te

Translation

ഹേ ഭഗവൻ രുദ്രാ! സൂര്യനെപ്പോലെ അപരിമിത തേജസ്സുള്ള നിനക്കു നമസ്കാരം. ഹേ ഭവ-രുദ്രാ! ഭൂമിയുടെ സാരവും ജലമയവും ആയ നിന്റെ സ്വരൂപത്തിനു പ്രണാമം।

Word by Word

• namaḥ: salutation
• namaḥ: Sambandha/Connector
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: namaḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: नमस्कारार्थक अव्यय (indeclinable of salutation)

• te: to you
• te: Sampradana (सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी/चतुर्थी (6th/4th) एकवचन रूप; अत्र ‘तुभ्यम्’ अर्थे दत्तिः (to you) — नमः + चतुर्थी

• bhagavan: O Blessed Lord
• bhagavan: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhagavat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (vocative), एकवचन

• rudra: O Rudra
• rudra: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: rudra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (vocative), एकवचन

• bhāskara-amita-tejase: to (you) of sun-like, immeasurable splendor
• bhāskara-amita-tejase: Sampradana (सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhāskara (प्रातिपदिक) + amita (प्रातिपदिक) + tejas (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th), एकवचन; बहुपद-तत्पुरुष (bhāskara-sadṛśa/amitaṃ tejaḥ yasya/tejas) — दत्तिः (to ...)

• namaḥ: salutation
• namaḥ: Sambandha/Connector
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: namaḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: नमस्कारार्थक अव्यय

• bhavāya: to Bhava
• bhavāya: Sampradana (सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th), एकवचन; दत्तिः

• rudrāya: to Rudra
• rudrāya: Sampradana (सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: rudra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th), एकवचन; दत्तिः

• rasā-ambu-mayāya: to you who are of the nature of sap/essence and water
• rasā-ambu-mayāya: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: rasā (प्रातिपदिक) + ambu (प्रातिपदिक) + maya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th), एकवचन; बहुपद-तत्पुरुष (rasāyāḥ ambu-mayaḥ) विशेषण (rudrāya)

• te: to you
• te: Sampradana (सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: चतुर्थी (4th), एकवचन; दत्तिः (to you)

Speaker

A Pāṇḍava (embedded narrator/devotee) offering stuti to Śiva (from the verse’s direct address)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Mahī-nagara liṅga (stuti locus)

Type: temple

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Pāṇḍava (as the invited hearer of the hymn)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee before a liṅga, hands raised in salutation; behind, a radiant sun-disc motif signifying ‘bhāskara-amita-tejas’; offerings of water in a silver pot and earth/flowers at the base, symbolizing Rudra as earth-and-water essence.

Characters & Entities

• Rudra
• Bhava (Śiva)
• Bhāskara (Sun)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Śiva is praised as both transcendent radiance and immanent presence within the elements—devotion unites cosmic and earthly divinity.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The hymn is situated within the Mahī-nagara liṅga narrative, part of the broader Prabhāsa-region mahatmya sequence in this chapter.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Stuti (verbal worship) through salutations (namas) to Rudra/Bhava.