Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 9

Devanagari script

इत्युक्तास्ते तदा देवि विप्रलंभप्रधर्षिताः । प्रत्यब्रुवंस्तान्मुनयस्तच्छृणुष्व यथातथम्

Transliteration

ityuktāste tadā devi vipralaṃbhapradharṣitāḥ | pratyabruvaṃstānmunayastacchṛṇuṣva yathātatham

Translation

ഹേ ദേവീ, ഇങ്ങനെ പറഞ്ഞപ്പോൾ പരിഹാസവും അപമാനവും മൂലം ക്ഷുബ്ധരായ മുനിമാർ അവർക്കു മറുപടി പറഞ്ഞു. ഇനി കേൾക്കുക—യഥാതഥമായി.

Word by Word

• iti: thus
• iti: Sambandha (Quotation marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: iti (अव्यय)
• Form: उद्धरण/इति-निपात (quotative particle)

• uktāḥ: having been spoken to / addressed
• uktāḥ: Karta (Subject qualifier/कर्ता-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vac (धातु) → ukta (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (PPP), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), बहुवचन

• te: they
• te: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), बहुवचन; सर्वनाम

• tadā: then
• tadā: Sambandha (Time/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tadā (अव्यय)
• Form: कालवाचक-अव्यय (temporal adverb)

• devi: O goddess
• devi: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: devī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन-विभक्ति (Vocative), एकवचन

• vipralaṃbha-pradharṣitāḥ: insulted/affronted by deception
• vipralaṃbha-pradharṣitāḥ: Karta (Subject qualifier/कर्ता-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vipralaṃbha (प्रातिपदिक) + pra-dharṣita (कृदन्त)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), बहुवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (PPP); तत्पुरुष-समास (विप्रलम्भेन प्रधर्षिताः)

• pratyabruvan: they replied
• pratyabruvan: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: brū (धातु)
• Form: लङ्-लकार (Imperfect), परस्मैपद, प्रथम-पुरुष, बहुवचन; उपसर्गः प्रति- (prati-)

• tān: to them / those (people)
• tān: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), बहुवचन; सर्वनाम

• munayaḥ: the sages
• munayaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: muni (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), बहुवचन

• tat: that (reply)
• tat: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• śṛṇuṣva: listen
• śṛṇuṣva: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: śru (धातु)
• Form: लोट्-लकार (Imperative), आत्मनेपद, मध्यम-पुरुष, एकवचन

• yathā-tatham: exactly as it is / truly
• yathā-tatham: Sambandha (Manner/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yathā (अव्यय) + tathā (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय-द्वन्द्व (indeclinable copulative), क्रियाविशेषण

Speaker

Narrator (within Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya frame)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Devī addressed (as per vocative) and the gathered party

Visual Art Cues

Scene: The sages, stung by insult, shift from silence to solemn speech; their faces harden with tapas-born authority as they prepare to narrate the truth.

Characters & Entities

• Devī
• Munis (sages)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Deriding holy sages invites grave karmic consequences; humility before dharma protects one’s lineage.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra, the famed pilgrimage region where decisive Purāṇic events unfold.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None in this verse; it transitions into the sages’ pronouncement.