Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 98

Devanagari script

अद्यापि तिष्ठते विष्णुर्जंतूनां पापनाशनः । तत्र स्नात्वा समभ्यर्च्य देवं योगीश्वरं ततः

Transliteration

adyāpi tiṣṭhate viṣṇurjaṃtūnāṃ pāpanāśanaḥ | tatra snātvā samabhyarcya devaṃ yogīśvaraṃ tataḥ

Translation

ഇന്നും അവിടെ വിഷ്ണു ജീവികളുടെ പാപനാശകനായി നിലകൊള്ളുന്നു. അവിടെ സ്നാനം ചെയ്ത്, തുടർന്ന് ദേവനായ യോഗീശ്വരനെ വിധിപൂർവ്വം ആരാധിച്ച്—

Word by Word

• अद्यापि: even today, still
• अद्यापि: Avyaya (Temporal)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अद्य (अव्यय) + अपि (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्ययसमूहः; कालवाचक (even today/still)

• तिष्ठते: stands, remains
• तिष्ठते: Kriyā (Main verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्था (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; आत्मनेपदम्

• विष्णुः: Viṣṇu
• विष्णुः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: विष्णु (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• जन्तूनाम्: of beings, of creatures
• जन्तूनाम्: Ṣaṣṭhī-sambandha (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: जन्तु (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), बहुवचन

• पापनाशनः: destroyer of sins
• पापनाशनः: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पाप (प्रातिपदिक) + नाशन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुषः (पापस्य नाशनः)

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Avyaya (Locative)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; देशवाचक (there)

• स्नात्वा: having bathed
• स्नात्वा: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Prior action)
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्ना (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund), अव्ययभावः; अर्थे—‘स्नात्वा’ (having bathed)

• समभ्यर्च्य: having worshipped properly
• समभ्यर्च्य: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Prior action)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-अभि-अर्च् (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund), अव्ययभावः; अर्थे—‘समभ्यर्च्य’ (having duly worshipped)

• देवम्: the god, the deity
• देवम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: देव (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• योगीश्वरम्: the Lord of Yogins
• योगीश्वरम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: योगीश्वर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘देवम्’ इत्यस्य विशेषण/अप्पोजिशन

• ततः: thereafter
• ततः: Avyaya (Temporal)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; अनन्तर/तदनन्तर (thereafter)

Speaker

Narrator (implied Purāṇic narration; likely Sūta continuing the account)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Yogīśvara at Sindhu–Sāgara-saṅgama

Type: sangam

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: dvija-sattama (addressed brāhmaṇa interlocutor)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: On the confluence bank, pilgrims bathe; Sāmba performs snāna and then offers worship to Yogīśvara-Viṣṇu—flowers, incense, lamp—before the shrine with ocean and river behind.

Characters & Entities

• Viṣṇu
• Yogīśvara

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Purāṇic tīrthas are living sanctuaries: bathing and worship there are taught as powerful means of purification.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The same confluence-tīrtha where Yogīśvara (Viṣṇu) is said to remain present.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Snāna (ritual bathing) at the site followed by proper worship (samabhyarcana) of Yogīśvara.