Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 3

Devanagari script

तं दृष्ट्वा मानवः सम्यग्यात्राफलमवाप्नुयात् । वाचिकं मानसं पापं दर्शनात्तस्य नश्यति

Transliteration

taṃ dṛṣṭvā mānavaḥ samyagyātrāphalamavāpnuyāt | vācikaṃ mānasaṃ pāpaṃ darśanāttasya naśyati

Translation

അവനെ ദർശിച്ചാൽ മനുഷ്യൻ തീർത്ഥയാത്രയുടെ സമ്പൂർണ്ണഫലം നിശ്ചയമായി പ്രാപിക്കും; ആ ദർശനത്താൽ വാക്കിന്റെയും മനസ്സിന്റെയും പാപങ്ങൾ നശിക്കും।

Word by Word

• tam: that (liṅga)
• tam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग; द्वितीया (Accusative); एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• dṛṣṭvā: having seen
• dṛṣṭvā: Purvakala-kriya (Prior action/पूर्वकालक्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: dṛś (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्ययकृदन्त (gerund/absolutive)

• mānavaḥ: a person
• mānavaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mānava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा (Nominative); एकवचन

• samyak: properly
• samyak: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: samyak (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; क्रियाविशेषण (adverb)

• yātrāphalam: the fruit of pilgrimage
• yātrāphalam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yātrā-phala (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; द्वितीया (Accusative); एकवचन; तत्पुरुषः—‘यात्रायाः फलम्’

• avāpnuyāt: would obtain
• avāpnuyāt: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: āp (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative); प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person); एकवचन; परस्मैपद; उपसर्ग ‘ava-’

• vācikam: verbal
• vācikam: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vācika (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; प्रथमा (Nominative); एकवचन

• mānasam: mental
• mānasam: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: mānasa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; प्रथमा (Nominative); एकवचन

• pāpam: sin
• pāpam: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāpa (प्रातिपदik)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; प्रथमा (Nominative); एकवचन

• darśanāt: from (the) seeing
• darśanāt: Apadana (Cause/source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: darśana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; पञ्चमी (Ablative); एकवचन

• tasya: of that (liṅga)
• tasya: Sambandha (Genitive relation/षष्ठी-सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग; षष्ठी (Genitive); एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• naśyati: perishes
• naśyati: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: naś (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present); प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person); एकवचन; परस्मैपद

Speaker

Īśvara (Śiva) (deduced from immediate adhyāya context in this māhātmya section)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Viśvakarmēśvara (contextual) within Prabhāsa-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee stands before the deity in a small Prabhāsa shrine; the moment of eye-contact (darśana) is highlighted—light from lamps touches the face; speech and thought symbolically dissolve like dark smoke dispersing.

Characters & Entities

• Viśvakarmeśvara
• Prabhāsakṣetra

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Darśana itself is a purifying act: seeing the deity at Prabhāsa grants full pilgrimage merit and destroys subtle sins of speech and mind.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsakṣetra (Prabhāsa), specifically the darśana of the deity praised in the Viśvakarmeśvara-māhātmya.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No separate rite is prescribed here; the emphasized practice is darśana (reverent viewing) as the direct cause of merit and purification.