Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 106

Devanagari script

भर्तृयज्ञस्तु तत्रैव लिंगस्याराधनात्क्रमात् । बीजदोषाद्विनिर्मुक्तस्तल्लिंगमहिमा त्वसौ

Transliteration

bhartṛyajñastu tatraiva liṃgasyārādhanātkramāt | bījadoṣādvinirmuktastalliṃgamahimā tvasau

Translation

भर्तृयज्ञाने तेथेच त्या लिंगाची विधिपूर्वक आराधना करून आपल्या ‘बीज’दोषापासून पूर्ण मुक्ती मिळवली; असा त्या लिंगाचा महिमा आहे।

Word by Word

• भर्तृयज्ञः: Bhartṛyajña (name)
• भर्तृयज्ञः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भर्तृ + यज्ञ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुषसमास (षष्ठी): ‘भर्तुः यज्ञः’; पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — masculine nominative singular

• तु: indeed/but
• तु: Sambandha (Discourse particle/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (समुच्चय/विरोधसूचक निपात) — particle ‘but/indeed’

• तत्रैव: right there
• तत्रैव: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र + एव (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्ययसमूह: स्थानवाचक ‘there’ + अवधारण ‘only’ — indeclinable phrase

• लिङ्गस्य: of the liṅga
• लिङ्गस्य: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: लिङ्ग (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), एकवचन — neuter genitive singular

• आराधनात्: from worship
• आराधनात्: Apadana/Hetu (Cause/source/अपादान-हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: आ-राध् (धातु) + अन → आराधन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th), एकवचन — neuter ablative singular

• क्रमात्: in due order/gradually
• क्रमात्: Hetu/Avadhi (Manner/source/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्रम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th), एकवचन — masculine ablative singular; adverbial sense ‘in due course/by stages’

• बीजदोषात्: from the defect of seed (innate flaw)
• बीजदोषात्: Apadana (Ablative/source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: बीज + दोष (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुषसमास (षष्ठी): ‘बीजस्य दोषः’; पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th), एकवचन — masculine ablative singular

• विनिर्मुक्तः: freed
• विनिर्मुक्तः: Karta (Subject-complement/कर्ता-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वि + निर् + मुच् (धातु) → मुक्त (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्यय (भूतकृदन्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — past passive participle used adjectivally ‘freed’

• तत्: that
• तत्: Sambandha (Determiner/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन (समासपूर्वपद) — neuter ‘that’ (as determiner)

• लिङ्ग: liṅga
• लिङ्ग: Sambandha (Compound member/समासाङ्ग)
• Type: Noun
• Root: लिङ्ग (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (समासपूर्वपद) — neuter stem as compound member

• महिमा: glory
• महिमा: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: महिमन्/महिमा (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — masculine nominative singular

• तल्लिङ्गमहिमा: the glory of that liṅga
• तल्लिङ्गमहिमा: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् + लिङ्ग + महिमा (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुषसमास: ‘तस्य लिङ्गस्य महिमा’; पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — masculine nominative singular

• त्व्: indeed
• त्व्: Sambandha (Discourse particle/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (निपात) — enclitic particle; here from sandhi of ‘तु’ before vowel

• असौ: he/that one
• असौ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अदस् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — demonstrative pronoun

Speaker

Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta) (deduced: Māheśvarakhaṇḍa narrative voice)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Babhru-pāvana tīrtha (contextual) / Mahākāla-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Bhartṛyajña performs a complete sequence of liṅga worship—abhiṣeka, bilva offering, lamps—while a symbolic ‘seed’ (bīja) of darkness cracks and dissolves beneath the pedestal, signifying root-cause purification.

Characters & Entities

• Bhartṛyajña
• Liṅga

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Śiva’s grace accessed through liṅga-worship can uproot even deep, inherited or inborn karmic defects.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Guptakṣetra, where the liṅga’s worship is said to remove bīja-doṣa.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Liṅga-ārādhana performed in proper sequence/discipline (kramāt).