Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 13

Devanagari script

यत्र स्नानेन दानेन नरो मुच्येत किल्बिषात्

Transliteration

yatra snānena dānena naro mucyeta kilbiṣāt

Translation

അവിടെ സ്നാനവും ദാനവും ചെയ്താൽ മനുഷ്യൻ പാപത്തിൽ നിന്ന് മോചിതനാകുന്നു।

Word by Word

• यत्र: where
• यत्र: Adhikarana (Locative sense/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; सम्बन्धबोधक-अव्यय (relative adverb: ‘where’)

• स्नानेन: by bathing
• स्नानेन: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्नान (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; तृतीया (3rd/करण), एकवचन

• दानेन: by giving (charity)
• दानेन: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: दान (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; तृतीया (3rd/करण), एकवचन

• नरः: a man
• नरः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा (1st/कर्ता), एकवचन

• मुच्येत: would be freed
• मुच्येत: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: मुच् (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकारार्थे विधिलिङ् (Optative); आत्मनेपद; प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; कर्मणि-प्रयोग (passive)

• किल्बिषात्: from sin
• किल्बिषात्: Apadana (Ablative source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: किल्बिष (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; पञ्चमी (5th/अपादान), एकवचन

Speaker

Brahmā (deduced for Vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍa context)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Bṛhaspati-kunda (contextual)

Type: kund

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A pilgrim completes a bath at the kund and then offers food/coins to a brāhmaṇa or a poor person on the ghāṭ steps; the water and the act of giving are shown as twin streams of purification.

Characters & Entities

• Bṛhaspati-kuṇḍa (implied)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Purification is completed by combining personal rite (snāna) with social virtue (dāna).

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Within the ongoing description, the tīrtha is Bṛhaspati-kuṇḍa in Ayodhyā.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Snāna (bathing) and dāna (charitable giving) at the tīrtha.