Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 29
Devanagari script
अन्यस्मिन्नहनि प्राप्ते प्रावृट्काले निशागमे । कृष्णपक्षे तमोभूते अलक्ष्येऽपि गते पुरः
Transliteration
anyasminnahani prāpte prāvṛṭkāle niśāgame | kṛṣṇapakṣe tamobhūte alakṣye'pi gate puraḥ
Translation
दुसऱ्या दिवशी, पावसाळ्यात रात्र येताना, कृष्णपक्षातील घन अंधार पसरला आणि पुढील नगरही नीट दिसेनासे झाले…
Word by Word
anyasminon another
anyasmin:
Adhikarana (Location/Time)
TypeAdjective
Rootanya (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; विशेषण (अहनि)
ahaniday
ahani:
Adhikarana (Time/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootahan (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन
prāptehaving arrived
prāpte:
Adhikarana (Temporal absolute)
TypeAdjective
Rootāp (धातु) + pra- + kta (कृत् प्रत्यय)
Formक्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त; नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन; सति-सप्तमी (when it had come)
prāvṛṭkālein the rainy season
prāvṛṭkāle:
Adhikarana (Time/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootprāvṛṭ (प्रातिपदिक) + kāla (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (प्रावृटः कालः)
niśāgameat the coming of night
niśāgame:
Adhikarana (Time/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootniśā (प्रातिपदिक) + āgama (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (निशायाः आगमः)
kṛṣṇapakṣein the dark fortnight
kṛṣṇapakṣe:
Adhikarana (Time/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootkṛṣṇa (प्रातिपदिक) + pakṣa (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन; कर्मधारय (कृष्णः पक्षः)
tamobhūtewhen it had become dark
tamobhūte:
Adhikarana (Temporal absolute)
TypeAdjective
Roottamas (प्रातिपदिक) + bhū (धातु) + kta (कृत्)
Formक्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त; नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (तमः भूते = become dark)
alakṣyewhen (things were) not visible
alakṣye:
Adhikarana (Time/Condition)
TypeAdjective
Roota-lakṣya (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन; विशेषण (काले/समये)
apieven
api:
Sambandha (Particle)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootapi (अव्यय)
Formनिपात (particle: even/also)
gatehaving gone/passed
gate:
Adhikarana (Temporal absolute)
TypeAdjective
Rootgam (धातु) + kta (कृत् प्रत्यय)
Formक्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त; नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन; सति-सप्तमी (when it had gone/passed)
puraḥahead/in front
puraḥ:
Sambandha (Adverbial)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootpuras (अव्यय/प्रातिपदिक)
Formअव्यय (adverb: in front/forward; also ‘before’)
Speaker
Narrator (within Nāgara-khaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya frame; specific speaker not explicit in snippet)
Visual Art Cues
Scene: A monsoon night descends; clouds cover the sky; the city ahead is barely visible; figures move cautiously with lamps, the road slick with rain.
FAQs
The verse sets a karmic atmosphere—dark time and obscurity—often used in Purāṇas to foreshadow moral testing and consequences.
No specific tirtha is named in this verse.
None; it is a narrative time-and-season setting.