Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 210

Devanagari script

इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखण्डे प्रथमे प्रभासक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये पुलस्त्येश्वरमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनाम दशोत्तरद्विशततमोऽध्यायः

Transliteration

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye pulastyeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma daśottaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീസ്കന്ദ മഹാപുരാണത്തിലെ ഏകാശീതിസാഹസ്രീ സംഹിതയുടെ ഏഴാം പ്രഭാസഖണ്ഡത്തിലെ ആദ്യ പ്രഭാസക്ഷേത്രമാഹാത്മ്യത്തിൽ ‘പുലസ്ത്യേശ്വരമാഹാത്മ്യവർണ്ണനം’ എന്ന പേരിലുള്ള ഇരുനൂറ്റി പത്താം അധ്യായം സമാപിച്ചു।

Word by Word

• इति: thus
• इति: Sambandha (Discourse marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, वाक्यसमाप्तिसूचक (quotative/closure particle)

• श्री-स्कांदे: in the venerable Skanda (Purāṇa)
• श्री-स्कांदे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्री (प्रातिपदिक) + स्कन्द (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative), एकवचन; ग्रन्थ-नाम

• महापुराणे: in the Mahāpurāṇa
• महापुराणे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: महापुराण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative), एकवचन

• एकाशीतिसाहस्र्याम्: in the eighty-one-thousand (verses) collection
• एकाशीतिसाहस्र्याम्: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकाशीति (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक) + साहस्री (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative), एकवचन; विशेषण (qualifying संहितायाम्)

• संहितायाम्: in the Saṃhitā
• संहितायाम्: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: संहिता (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative), एकवचन

• सप्तमे: in the seventh
• सप्तमे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative), एकवचन; क्रमवाचक-विशेषण (qualifying खण्डे)

• प्रभासखण्डे: in the Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa
• प्रभासखण्डे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रभास + खण्ड (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative), एकवचन

• प्रथमे: in the first
• प्रथमे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रथम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative), एकवचन; विशेषण (qualifying माहात्म्ये)

• प्रभासक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये: in the Māhātmya of the Prabhāsa sacred field
• प्रभासक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रभास-क्षेत्र + माहात्म्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative), एकवचन

• पुलस्त्येश्वरमाहात्म्यवर्णनम्: the description of the greatness of Pulastyeśvara
• पुलस्त्येश्वरमाहात्म्यवर्णनम्: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुलस्त्य-ईश्वर + माहात्म्य + वर्णन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), एकवचन

• नाम: named; called
• नाम: Sambandha (Apposition marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नाम (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, नामनिर्देशक (naming particle)

• दशोत्तरद्विशततमः: the two-hundred-and-tenth
• दशोत्तरद्विशततमः: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दशोत्तर (प्रातिपदिक) + द्विशततम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), एकवचन; क्रमवाचक-विशेषण (qualifying अध्यायः)

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), एकवचन

Speaker

Colophon / redactional closure (not a narrative speaker)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Pulastyeśvara (within Prabhāsa-kṣetra circuit)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Śaunaka and Naimiṣāraṇya ṛṣis (frame audience, typical)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A manuscript-like closing tableau: sages and scribes conclude a chapter; a stylized map-strip of Prabhāsa shows the Pulastyeśvara shrine as a node in a chain of liṅgas; Śiva’s emblematic presence presides as the text is ritually ‘sealed’.

Characters & Entities

• Skanda Purāṇa
• Prabhāsa Kṣetra
• Pulastyeśvara

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

It is primarily a structural marker confirming the chapter’s scope and title.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Pulastyeśvara within Prabhāsa Kṣetra.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None—this is a chapter colophon.