Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 6

Devanagari script

तत्र प्राभासिके क्षेत्रे संस्थिताः पापनाशने । यादवस्थलमासाद्य यावद्रैवतको गिरि

Transliteration

tatra prābhāsike kṣetre saṃsthitāḥ pāpanāśane | yādavasthalamāsādya yāvadraivatako giri

Translation

അവിടെ പാപനാശകമായ പ്രാഭാസ തീർത്ഥപ്രദേശത്ത് അവർ പാർത്തു. യാദവരുടെ വാസസ്ഥലത്തെത്തി റൈവതക പർവ്വതം വരെ വ്യാപിച്ചു.

Word by Word

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक-अव्यय (locative adverb)

• प्राभासिके: in the Prabhāsa-related
• प्राभासिके: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्राभासिक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter; agreeing with ‘क्षेत्रे’), सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; विशेषण

• क्षेत्रे: in the sacred field/place
• क्षेत्रे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षेत्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन

• संस्थिताः: stayed, were stationed
• संस्थिताः: Kriya (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम् + स्था (धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (Past participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; कर्तरि-प्रयोग (‘having stayed/being stationed’)

• पापनाशने: in the sin-destroying (place)
• पापनाशने: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पापनाशन (प्रातिपदिक: पाप + नाशन)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter; agreeing with ‘क्षेत्रे’), सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेषण (पापानां नाशनम्)

• यादवस्थलम्: the Yādava region/ground
• यादवस्थलम्: Karma (Goal/Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यादवस्थल (प्रातिपदिक: यादव + स्थल)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative/2nd), एकवचन; गत्यर्थकर्म (goal)

• आसाद्य: having reached
• आसाद्य: Kriya-viseshana (Adverbial participle/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ + सद् (धातु)
• Form: ल्यप्/क्त्वा-समकक्ष अव्यय-भाव (Gerund), ‘having reached/approached’

• यावत्: up to, as far as
• यावत्: Kriya-viseshana (Limit/अवधि)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यावत् (अव्यय)
• Form: परिमाण/अवधि-वाचक अव्यय (up to/as far as)

• रैवतकः: Raivataka
• रैवतकः: Samānādhikaraṇa (Apposition/समानाधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: रैवतक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेष्य (with ‘गिरिः’)

• गिरिः: mountain
• गिरिः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: गिरि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

Speaker

Skanda (narrating the Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya to a listener addressed as Devī)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Prābhāsika-kṣetra)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A map-like sacred panorama: the Prabhāsa region labeled as sin-destroying, with a Yādava settlement spreading toward the Raivataka mountain in the distance.

Characters & Entities

• Prabhāsa-kṣetra
• Yādavas
• Raivataka (mountain)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra is praised as a sin-destroying sacred landscape; dwelling or arriving there is presented as spiritually purifying.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Prabhāsa), described as pāpa-nāśana, with its extent reaching the Yādava region up to Mount Raivataka.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No explicit rite is stated in this verse; it establishes the sacred setting and geography of the tīrtha.