Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 190

Devanagari script

इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां षष्ठे नागरखण्डे हाटकेश्वरक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये ब्रह्मयज्ञावभृथयक्ष्म तीर्थोत्पत्तिमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनाम नवत्युत्तरशततमोऽध्यायः

Transliteration

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye brahmayajñāvabhṛthayakṣma tīrthotpattimāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma navatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീസ്കന്ദ മഹാപുരാണത്തിലെ ഏകാശീതി-സാഹസ്രീ സംഹിതയുടെ ഷഷ്ഠ നാഗരഖണ്ഡത്തിൽ, ഹാടകേശ്വരക്ഷേത്രമാഹാത്മ്യാന്തർഗതമായി ‘ബ്രഹ്മയജ്ഞാവഭൃതവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട യക്ഷ്മതീർത്ഥോത്പത്തി മഹാത്മ്യവർണനം’ എന്ന നൂറ്റിത്തൊണ്ണൂറ്റാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി।

Word by Word

• iti: thus; so
• iti: Sambandha (Discourse marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: iti (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; इति-शब्दः (quotative particle)

• śrīskāṃde: in the Śrī Skanda (Purāṇa)
• śrīskāṃde: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śrī-skanda (प्रातिपदिक; श्री + स्कन्द)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गे, सप्तमी-विभक्तिः, एकवचनम् (Locative singular)

• mahāpurāṇe: in the Mahāpurāṇa
• mahāpurāṇe: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mahā-purāṇa (प्रातिपदिक; महा + पुराण)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे, सप्तमी-विभक्तिः, एकवचनम् (Locative singular)

• ekāśītisāhasryām: in the eighty-one-thousand (collection)
• ekāśītisāhasryām: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ekāśīti-sāhasrī (प्रातिपदिक; एकाशीतिः + साहस्री)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्गे, सप्तमी-विभक्तिः, एकवचनम् (Locative singular); संख्याविशेषणम्

• saṃhitāyām: in the Saṃhitā
• saṃhitāyām: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃhitā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्गे, सप्तमी-विभक्तिः, एकवचनम् (Locative singular)

• ṣaṣṭhe: in the sixth
• ṣaṣṭhe: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ṣaṣṭha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गे, सप्तमी-विभक्तिः, एकवचनम् (Locative singular); क्रमवाचक-विशेषणम्

• nāgarakhaṇḍe: in the Nāgara-khaṇḍa section
• nāgarakhaṇḍe: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nagara-khaṇḍa (प्रातिपदिक; नगर + खण्ड)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे, सप्तमी-विभक्तिः, एकवचनम् (Locative singular)

• hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye: in the Māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara sacred field
• hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: hāṭaka-īśvara-kṣetra-māhātmya (प्रातिपदिक; हाटक + ईश्वर + क्षेत्र + माहात्म्य)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे, सप्तमी-विभक्तिः, एकवचनम् (Locative singular)

• brahmayajñāvabhṛthayakṣma: (the topics) Brahma-yajña, Avabhṛtha, and Yakṣma
• brahmayajñāvabhṛthayakṣma: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: brahma-yajña-avabhṛtha-yakṣma (प्रातिपदिक; ब्रह्म + यज्ञ + अवभृथ + यक्ष्म)
• Form: समाहार-द्वन्द्वः (collective dvandva); प्रथमा/द्वितीया-एकवचनरूपेण शीर्षकाङ्गम् (title-member)

• tīrthotpattimāhātmyavarṇanam: the description of the greatness of the origin of the tīrtha
• tīrthotpattimāhātmyavarṇanam: Karta (Title/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tīrtha-utpatti-māhātmya-varṇana (प्रातिपदिक; तीर्थ + उत्पत्ति + माहात्म्य + वर्णन)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे, प्रथमा-विभक्तिः, एकवचनम् (Nominative singular); शीर्षक-नाम (chapter title)

• nāma: named; called
• nāma: Sambandha (Naming marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: nāman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय; नाम-शब्दः (naming particle: “called”)

• navatyuttaraśatatamaḥ: the one hundred and ninetieth
• navatyuttaraśatatamaḥ: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: navati-uttara-śata-tama (प्रातिपदिक; नवति + उत्तर + शत + तम)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गे, प्रथमा-विभक्तिः, एकवचनम् (Nominative singular); क्रमवाचकः (ordinal)

• adhyāyaḥ: chapter
• adhyāyaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: adhyāya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गे, प्रथमा-विभक्तिः, एकवचनम् (Nominative singular)

Speaker

Colophon / redactional marker (not a dialogue speaker)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Yakṣma-tīrtha (Avabhṛtha of Brahma-yajña)

Type: kund

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Ṛṣis (Naimiṣāraṇya setting implied by Sūta framework)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A manuscript-style colophon scene: sages and Sūta in a forest-āśrama, with a marginal vignette of a yajña-kuṇḍa and pilgrims bathing at a tīrtha labeled ‘Yakṣma’.

Characters & Entities

• Skanda Mahāpurāṇa
• Nāgara Khaṇḍa
• Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra
• Brahma-yajña
• Avabhṛtha
• Yakṣma-tīrtha

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

As a colophon, it frames the passage as a tīrtha-māhātmya: sacred history is preserved to guide pilgrimage and dharmic practice.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra and the Yakṣma-tīrtha whose origin and greatness are the chapter’s subject.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

The title highlights the avabhṛtha (concluding bath) of the Brahma-yajña as the ritual context for the tīrtha’s origin narrative.