Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 75

Devanagari script

तस्मिन्नहनि यस्तोयैः पितॄन्संतर्पयिष्यति । तस्याष्टादशकुष्ठानि क्षयं यास्यंति तत्क्षणात्

Transliteration

tasminnahani yastoyaiḥ pitṝnsaṃtarpayiṣyati | tasyāṣṭādaśakuṣṭhāni kṣayaṃ yāsyaṃti tatkṣaṇāt

Translation

ആ ദിവസം ആരെങ്കിലും ആ ജലങ്ങളാൽ പിതൃക്കൾക്ക് തർപ്പണം ചെയ്‌താൽ, അവന്റെ പതിനെട്ടു തരത്തിലുള്ള കുഷ്ഠരോഗങ്ങൾ അന്നുതന്നെ ക്ഷയിക്കും।

Word by Word

• तस्मिन्: on that
• तस्मिन्: Adhikaraṇa (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम-विशेषण, पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th case), एकवचन

• अहनि: day
• अहनि: Adhikaraṇa (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अहन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th case), एकवचन

• यः: who (he who)
• यः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st case), एकवचन

• तोयैः: with waters
• तोयैः: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तोय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd case), बहुवचन; करण (instrument)

• पितॄन्: the ancestors (pitṛs)
• पितॄन्: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पितृ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd case), बहुवचन

• संतर्पयिष्यति: will satisfy/offer libations to
• संतर्पयिष्यति: Kriyā (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्+√तृप् (तृप् धातु, णिच् causative)
• Form: लृट्-लकार (Simple Future), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; णिजन्त (causative)

• तस्य: of him
• तस्य: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, षष्ठी (6th case), एकवचन

• अष्टादशकुष्ठानि: the eighteen leprosies/diseases
• अष्टादशकुष्ठानि: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अष्टादश (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक) + कुष्ठ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: द्विगु-समास; नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st case), बहुवचन

• क्षयम्: destruction, disappearance
• क्षयम्: Gati/Karman (Goal as object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd case), एकवचन; गत्यर्थक-क्रियायाः लक्ष्य (goal)

• यास्यन्ति: will go (i.e., will vanish)
• यास्यन्ति: Kriyā (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √या (या धातु)
• Form: लृट्-लकार (Simple Future), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन

• तत्क्षणात्: immediately, at that very moment
• तत्क्षणात्: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial modifier/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत् (सर्वनाम) + क्षण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्ययीभाव-समास; पञ्चमी-एकवचनरूपेण अव्ययवत् (ablative used adverbially)

Speaker

Unspecified (didactic narrative voice within the Māhātmya)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (tarpaṇa-ghāṭ/tīrtha)

Type: ghat

Visual Art Cues

Scene: At a ghāṭ, a devotee pours water through cupped hands for tarpaṇa; as the water falls, a radiant cleansing aura surrounds the body, with dark blemishes fading—symbolizing the ‘eighteen kuṣṭhas’ dissolving instantly; full moon overhead.

Characters & Entities

• Pitṛ
• Tarpaṇa
• Kuṣṭha
• Śrāvaṇa Paurṇamāsī (implied)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Service to the ancestors at a powerful tīrtha is portrayed as both spiritually purifying and capable of removing severe afflictions.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The Devikā-taṭa/Mūlasthāna tīrtha in Prabhāsa Kṣetra, particularly efficacious on the specified auspicious day.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Pitṛ-tarpaṇa (libations to ancestors) using tīrtha-water on that sacred day (contextually the Śrāvaṇa full-moon day).