Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 280

Devanagari script

इति श्रीस्कान्दे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखण्डे प्रथमे प्रभास क्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये च्यवनेश्वरमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनामाशीत्युत्तरद्विशततमोऽध्यायः

Transliteration

iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsa kṣetramāhātmye cyavaneśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmāśītyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീസ്കന്ദ മഹാപുരാണത്തിലെ ഏകാശീതിസാഹസ്രീ സംഹിതയുടെ സപ്തമ പ്രഭാസഖണ്ഡത്തിലെ പ്രഥമ ‘പ്രഭാസക്ഷേത്രമാഹാത്മ്യ’ത്തിൽ ‘ച്യവനേശ്വരമാഹാത്മ്യവർണനം’ എന്ന രണ്ടുനൂറ്റി എൺപതാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി.

Word by Word

• इति: thus
• इति: Prayoga-nipāta (Discourse marker/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति (अव्यय)
• Form: उपसंहार-अव्यय (quotative/end marker)

• श्रीस्कान्दे: in the Śrī Skanda (Purāṇa)
• श्रीस्कान्दे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीस्कान्द (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; कर्मधारय-समासः (‘श्रीमान् स्कान्दः’)

• महापुराणे: in the Mahāpurāṇa
• महापुराणे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: महापुराण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; कर्मधारयः (‘महत् पुराणम्’)

• एकाशीतिसाहस्र्याम्: in the eighty-one-thousand (collection)
• एकाशीतिसाहस्र्याम्: Visheshana (Qualifier of saṃhitāyām/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकाशीति + साहस्री (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; द्विगु-समासः (numerical: ‘81-thousand’)

• संहितायाम्: in the Saṃhitā
• संहितायाम्: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: संहिता (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन

• सप्तमे: in the seventh
• सप्तमे: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; क्रमवाचक (ordinal)

• प्रभासखण्डे: in the Prabhāsa section
• प्रभासखण्डे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रभास + खण्ड (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (‘प्रभासस्य खण्डः’)

• प्रथमे: in the first
• प्रथमे: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रथम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; क्रमवाचक

• प्रभास: Prabhāsa
• प्रभास: Sambandha (Compound member/समासाङ्ग)
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रभास (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, (समासपूर्वपद/पूर्वपद-रूप)

• क्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये: in the ‘Glory of the Sacred Place’
• क्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षेत्र + माहात्म्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (‘क्षेत्रस्य माहात्म्यम्’)

• च्यवनेश्वरमाहात्म्यवर्णनम्: the description of the glory of Cyavaneśvara
• च्यवनेश्वरमाहात्म्यवर्णनम्: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: च्यवनेश्वर + माहात्म्य + वर्णन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन; बहुपद-तत्पुरुषः (determinative chain)

• नाम: named
• नाम: Sambandha-bodhaka (Naming marker/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नाम (अव्यय)
• Form: नामार्थक-अव्यय (particle: named/called)

• अशीत्युत्तरद्विशततमः: the 280th
• अशीत्युत्तरद्विशततमः: Visheshana (Qualifier of adhyāyaḥ/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अशीति + उत्तर + द्विशततम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; संख्यावाचक-तत्पुरुषः (ordinal: ‘two-hundred-and-eighty’)

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन

Speaker

Redactional colophon (scribal/editorial closure typical of Purāṇic manuscripts)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Cyavaneśvara-māhātmya (chapter unit)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Śaunaka and ṛṣis at Naimiṣāraṇya (implied; not explicit here)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A scribe or reciter concludes a chapter; palm-leaf manuscript or birch-bark folios, a small shrine lamp, listeners seated; the atmosphere is formal and concluding.

Characters & Entities

• Skanda Purāṇa
• Prabhāsakhaṇḍa
• Prabhāsa Kṣetra
• Cyavaneśvara

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

This is a colophon; it preserves textual structure and signals the completion of the Cyavaneśvara Māhātmya chapter.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa Kṣetra, through the chapter dedicated to Cyavaneśvara’s greatness.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; this line functions as a chapter-ending identification and cataloging statement.