Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 46

Devanagari script

ततो निन्युर्गृहं स्वं च शृण्वंतश्च मुहुर्मुहुः । नागलोकोद्भवां वार्तां विस्य याविष्टचेतसः

Transliteration

tato ninyurgṛhaṃ svaṃ ca śṛṇvaṃtaśca muhurmuhuḥ | nāgalokodbhavāṃ vārtāṃ visya yāviṣṭacetasaḥ

Translation

नंतर त्यांनी तिला आपल्या घरी नेले. नागलोकातून उद्भवलेली ती वार्ता ते पुन्हा पुन्हा ऐकत राहिले; विस्मयाने त्यांचे चित्त त्यातच पूर्णपणे गुंतले.

Word by Word

• ततः: then
• ततः: Adhikarana (Time/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, कालवाचक (temporal adverb)

• निन्युः: led, took
• निन्युः: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: नी (धातु)
• Form: लिट्-लकार (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन (Plural), परस्मैपद

• गृहम्: to the house
• गृहम्: Karma (Goal/Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: गृह (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), एकवचन (Singular)

• स्वम्: their own
• स्वम्: Karma (Qualifier/कर्मविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स्व (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), एकवचन (Singular); गृहम् इति विशेषण

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, समुच्चय (conjunction)

• शृण्वन्तः: listening
• शृण्वन्तः: Karta (Subject-Qualifier/कर्तृविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: श्रु (धातु)
• Form: वर्तमानकृदन्त (present participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), बहुवचन (Plural)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, समुच्चय (conjunction)

• मुहुः: again and again
• मुहुः: Sambandha (Adverbial/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: मुहुः (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, पुनरुक्ति/आवृत्तिवाचक (adverb of repetition)

• मुहुः: repeatedly
• मुहुः: Sambandha (Adverbial/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: मुहुः (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, पुनरुक्ति (reduplicated adverb)

• नागलोक-उद्भवाम्: arising from the Nāga-world
• नागलोक-उद्भवाम्: Karma (Object-Qualifier/कर्मविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नागलोक (प्रातिपदिक) + उद्भव (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), एकवचन (Singular); षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष: 'नागलोकात् उद्भवा'

• वार्ताम्: news, report
• वार्ताम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वार्ता (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), एकवचन (Singular)

• विश्य: having entered
• विश्य: Purvakala (Prior action/पूर्वकाल)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: विश् (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund), अव्यय-प्रयोग; पाठभेद: 'विश्य' = 'प्रविश्य/विश्य' (having entered)

• या-विष्ट-चेतसः: whose minds were possessed (by that news)
• या-विष्ट-चेतसः: Karta (Subject-Qualifier/कर्तृविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: या (अव्यय/उपसर्गार्थ) + आविष्ट (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक) + चेतस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), बहुवचन (Plural); बहुव्रीहि: 'यया (वार्तया) आविष्टं चेतः येषां ते'

Speaker

Narrator (Purāṇic narrator within Nāgarakhaṇḍa; exact speaker not explicit in the snippet)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Inside a home, the group repeatedly asks for the nāga-world account; listeners lean forward, eyes wide, hands clasped; the storyteller gestures as if unveiling a hidden realm.

Characters & Entities

• Nāgaloka

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Purāṇic dharma teaches attentiveness to extraordinary events as signs within a sacred moral order, prompting discernment and communal response.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse is within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya frame; this shloka itself does not name the tīrtha.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No ritual directive appears in this verse.