Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 104

Devanagari script

दशभिर्ज्जन्मजनितं शतेन च पुरा कृतम् । त्रियुगे तु सहस्रेण तस्य नश्यति पातकम्

Transliteration

daśabhirjjanmajanitaṃ śatena ca purā kṛtam | triyuge tu sahasreṇa tasya naśyati pātakam

Translation

പത്ത് ജപംകൊണ്ട് ഈ ജന്മജനിത പാപം നശിക്കുന്നു; നൂറുകൊണ്ട് പൂർവ്വകൃത പാപം; ആയിരംകൊണ്ട് മൂന്ന് യുഗങ്ങളിൽ ചെയ്ത പാപവും നശിക്കുന്നു.

Word by Word

• daśabhiḥ: by ten
• daśabhiḥ: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: daśa (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग/पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental), बहुवचन; संख्याविशेषण

• janma-janitam: born from (this) birth
• janma-janitam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: janman (प्रातिपदिक) + janita (जनि धातु + क्त)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया/प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (janmanaḥ janitam) कृदन्त-विशेषण

• śatena: by a hundred
• śatena: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śata (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental), एकवचन

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयार्थक

• purā: formerly, earlier
• purā: Kala (Time adjunct)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: purā (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; कालवाचक क्रियाविशेषण (adverb of time)

• kṛtam: done, committed
• kṛtam: Karma (Object qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kṛ (कृ धातु) + kta (क्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त, नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया/प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेषण—(pātakam) इति

• tri-yuge: in three yugas
• tri-yuge: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tri (संख्या) + yuga (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative), एकवचन; द्विगु-समास (त्रीणि युगानि)

• tu: but/indeed
• tu: Sambandha (Discourse particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निपात

• sahasreṇa: by a thousand
• sahasreṇa: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sahasra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental), एकवचन

• tasya: of him/that
• tasya: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• naśyati: perishes, is destroyed
• naśyati: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: naś (नश् धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), प्रथम-पुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद

• pātakam: sin
• pātakam: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pātaka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

Speaker

Skanda (deduced; continuing phala of Sāvitrī-japa)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Chamatkārapura (contextual)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: viprāḥ (addressed)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A visual progression: 10, 100, 1000 beads/lamps; dark smoke-like ‘pāpa’ dissolving into light as the mantra radiance expands across cosmic time (yuga imagery).

Characters & Entities

• Sāvitrī

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Disciplined repetition of sacred mantra functions as purification (prāyaścitta), progressively erasing sins of different temporal depths.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The same tīrtha context of Sāvitrī worship in Nāgarakhaṇḍa Adhyāya 192, where japa is being praised.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Counting-based Sāvitrī japa: ten, hundred, and thousand recitations are described with corresponding purificatory results.