Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 46

Devanagari script

स्थावरत्वं गता ये च पुद्गलत्वं च ये गताः । पिशाचत्वं गता ये च ये च प्रेतत्वमागताः

Transliteration

sthāvaratvaṃ gatā ye ca pudgalatvaṃ ca ye gatāḥ | piśācatvaṃ gatā ye ca ye ca pretatvamāgatāḥ

Translation

സ്ഥാവരാവസ്ഥയിൽ പതിച്ചവർ, മറ്റു ദേഹധാരിത്വസ്ഥിതിയിലേക്കു (പുദ്ഗലത്വത്തിലേക്കു) പോയവർ, പിശാചത്വം പ്രാപിച്ചവർ, പ്രേതത്വത്തിലേക്കു വന്നവർ—(എല്ലാവരും ഈ തീർത്ഥാനുഗ്രഹത്തിന്റെ പരിധിയിലുണ്ട്).

Word by Word

• स्थावरत्वम्: the state of being immobile (plant/immovable existence)
• स्थावरत्वम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्थावरत्व (प्रातिपदिक; स्थावर + त्व)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन

• गताः: having attained / gone to
• गताः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: गम् (धातु) + गत (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; ‘gone/attained’ (participial predicate)

• ये: who (those)
• ये: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन (relative pronoun)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक-अव्यय (conjunction)

• पुद्गलत्वम्: the state of being a ‘pudgala’ (embodied being)
• पुद्गलत्वम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुद्गलत्व (प्रातिपदिक; पुद्गल + त्व)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक-अव्यय (conjunction)

• ये: who
• ये: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• गताः: have gone/attained
• गताः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: गम् (धातु) + गत (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• पिशाचत्वम्: the state of being a piśāca (ghoul)
• पिशाचत्वम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पिशाचत्व (प्रातिपदिक; पिशाच + त्व)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• गताः: having attained
• गताः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: गम् (धातु) + गत (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• ये: who
• ये: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक-अव्यय (conjunction)

• ये: who
• ये: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक-अव्यय (conjunction)

• प्रेतत्वम्: the state of being a preta (departed spirit)
• प्रेतत्वम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रेतत्व (प्रातिपदिक; प्रेत + त्व)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• आगताः: have come to / have reached
• आगताः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-गम् (धातु) + आगत (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; उपसर्गयुक्त (आ-)

Speaker

Skanda (deduced from Dvārakā Māhātmya narrative context)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Dvārakā Gomatī–Samudra tīrtha (context)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Audience within the Māhātmya frame

Visual Art Cues

Scene: At twilight on the confluence shore, a ritualist offers tarpaṇa; in the liminal air, faint forms of pretas and piśācas are shown being soothed and lifted, while immobile and other embodied states are symbolized by a tree/stone and animal forms—transformed by sacred water and mantra.

Characters & Entities

• Sthāvara
• Piśāca
• Preta
• Saṅgama (implied continuation)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

The tīrtha’s compassion is described as extending even to beings in difficult or obscured states of existence.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The chapter’s central tīrtha: Gomatī-udadhi-saṅgama in the Dvārakā-pradeśa.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

This verse prepares the claim that tīrtha-snāna can uplift even those in preta/piśāca and other states (completed explicitly in the next verse).