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Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 31

Devanagari script

ततो हृष्टमना भूत्वा गृहीत्वा तां चतुर्मुखः । पुनर्वर्षसहस्रांते भूमिपृष्ठमुपागतः । दर्शयामास तां विष्णोरेषा लिंगस्य मूर्धतः

Transliteration

tato hṛṣṭamanā bhūtvā gṛhītvā tāṃ caturmukhaḥ | punarvarṣasahasrāṃte bhūmipṛṣṭhamupāgataḥ | darśayāmāsa tāṃ viṣṇoreṣā liṃgasya mūrdhataḥ

Translation

मग चतुर्मुख ब्रह्मा हर्षित होऊन ते (पुष्प) घेऊन, हजार वर्षांच्या शेवटी पुन्हा भूमिपृष्ठावर आला. त्याने विष्णूला दाखवून म्हटले—“हे लिंगाच्या शिखरावरून आहे.”

Word by Word
tataḥthereafter
tataḥ:
Adhikarana (Context/अधिकरण)
TypeIndeclinable
Roottatas (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)
Formअव्यय (क्रियाविशेषण) — ‘ततः’ = तस्मात्/तदनन्तरम् (thereafter/from there)
hṛṣṭa-manāḥwith delighted mind
hṛṣṭa-manāḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeAdjective
Roothṛṣṭa (कृदन्त, √hṛṣ्) + manas (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; विशेषण—हृष्टः मनाः यस्य (whose mind is delighted)
bhūtvāhaving become
bhūtvā:
Kriya (Gerundial action/पूर्वक्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√bhū (धातु)
Formक्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund) — ‘भूत्वा’ (having become)
gṛhītvāhaving taken
gṛhītvā:
Kriya (Gerundial action/पूर्वक्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√grah (धातु)
Formक्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund) — ‘गृहीत्वा’ (having taken)
tāmher/that (garland)
tām:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Roottad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; सर्वनाम
caturmukhaḥBrahmā (the four-faced)
caturmukhaḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootcatur (संख्या) + mukha (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; बहुव्रीहिः—चत्वारि मुखानि यस्य (the four-faced one = Brahmā)
punaragain
punar:
Kriya-visheṣaṇa (Adverbial)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootpunar (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय (क्रियाविशेषण) — पुनः (again)
varṣa-sahasra-anteat the end of a thousand years
varṣa-sahasra-ante:
Adhikarana (Time/कालाधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootvarṣa (प्रातिपदिक) + sahasra (प्रातिपदिक) + anta (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; तत्पुरुषः—वर्षसहस्रस्य अन्ते (at the end of a thousand years)
bhūmi-pṛṣṭhamthe earth’s surface
bhūmi-pṛṣṭham:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootbhūmi (प्रातिपदिक) + pṛṣṭha (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; तत्पुरुषः—भूमेः पृष्ठम् (surface of the earth)
upāgataḥarrived
upāgataḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeVerb
Rootupa-√gam (धातु)
Formक्त (past passive participle used actively); पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — ‘उपागतः’ (having arrived)
darśayāmāsashowed
darśayāmāsa:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√dṛś (धातु) [णिच् causative: darśaya-]
Formलिट् (परस्मैपद, perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन; causative sense—‘दर्शयामास’ (showed)
tāmher/that (garland)
tām:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Roottad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; सर्वनाम
viṣṇoḥof Viṣṇu
viṣṇoḥ:
Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootviṣṇu (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), एकवचन
eṣāthis (she/this one)
eṣā:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootetad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; सर्वनाम
liṅgasyaof the liṅga
liṅgasya:
Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootliṅga (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), एकवचन
mūrdhataḥfrom the top
mūrdhataḥ:
Apadana (Source/अपादान)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootmūrdhan (प्रातिपदिक)
Formतसिल्-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (ablatival adverb) — मूर्धतः (from the top/head)
Speaker

Brahmā (narration)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Brahmā, pleased, holds the flower/garland and returns after a thousand years to earth; he presents it to Viṣṇu as proof it came from the liṅga’s summit.

Characters & Entities
B
Brahmā (Caturmukha)
V
Viṣṇu
Ś
Śiva (as the Liṅga)
K
Ketakī flower

FAQs

Spiritual narratives warn that delight in ‘winning’ can obscure truth; time and effort do not justify an untrue claim.

Not named in this verse; the overarching Arbuda-khaṇḍa frames the region’s Śaiva authority through such liṅga-mahātmyas.

None.

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