Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 76

Devanagari script

दमनस्थैर्यमगमद्योगेनेव महात्मनः । न दिवा बाधयांचक्रे क्षुत्तृण्निद्रा क्षपा सुताम्

Transliteration

damanasthairyamagamadyogeneva mahātmanaḥ | na divā bādhayāṃcakre kṣuttṛṇnidrā kṣapā sutām

Translation

तिने संयमाची दृढता प्राप्त केली, जणू महात्म्याच्या योगानेच; दिवसा भूक, तहान व झोप त्या क्षपाकन्येला बाधू शकल्या नाहीत।

Word by Word

• damana-sthairyam: steadiness of self-control
• damana-sthairyam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: damana + sthairya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; द्वितीया एकवचनम् (neut. accusative singular)

• agamat: attained; reached
• agamat: Kriyā (Verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √gam (धातु)
• Form: लुङ् (aorist); प्रथमपुरुष; एकवचनम् (3rd person singular)

• yogena: by yoga
• yogena: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yoga (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; तृतीया एकवचनम् (masc. instrumental singular)

• eva: indeed; alone
• eva: Sambandha (Particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्ययम्; अवधारणार्थक (emphatic particle)

• mahātmanaḥ: of the great-souled one
• mahātmanaḥ: Sambandha (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mahātman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; षष्ठी एकवचनम् (masc. genitive singular)

• na: not
• na: Sambandha (Negation)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na (अव्यय)
• Form: निषेधार्थक-अव्ययम् (negation particle)

• divā: by day
• divā: Sambandha (Adverbial)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: divā (अव्यय)
• Form: कालवाचक-अव्ययम् (temporal adverb: by day)

• bādhayām: affliction; disturbance
• bādhayām: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bādhā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; द्वितीया एकवचनम् (fem. accusative singular) — ‘bādhām’ (object)

• cakre: did; caused
• cakre: Kriyā (Verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √kṛ (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (perfect); प्रथमपुरुष; एकवचनम् (3rd person singular); आत्मनेपदम्

• kṣut-tṛṭ-nidrāḥ: hunger, thirst, and sleep
• kṣut-tṛṭ-nidrāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kṣut (प्रातिपदिक) + tṛṭ (प्रातिपदिक) + nidrā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा बहुवचनम् (fem. nominative plural) — समाहार-द्वन्द्व/इतरेतर-द्वन्द्वार्थे (hunger, thirst, sleep)

• kṣapā: night
• kṣapā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kṣapā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा एकवचनम् (fem. nominative singular)

• sutām: the daughter
• sutām: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sutā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; द्वितीया एकवचनम् (fem. accusative singular)

Speaker

Skanda (deduced for Kāśīkhaṇḍa narrative)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: The devotee remains unshaken through the day—sitting in steady posture near a liṅga, sunlight slanting in—while symbolic figures of hunger, thirst, and sleep fade away powerless.

Characters & Entities

• Kṣapā (as mother/epithet)
• Oṃkāra-liṅga (implied devotional cause)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

True devotion produces yogic steadiness and self-mastery, reducing the tyranny of bodily urges.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Kāśī is the broader sacred context; the practice is tied to Oṃkāra-liṅga-centered worship in the Kāśīkhaṇḍa.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Implicit vrata/tapas: cultivation of dama (restraint) and sustained worship leading to yogic stability.