Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 3

Devanagari script

कुलानि यान्यतीतानि भविष्याणि च यानि वै । तारयेत्स नरो देवि नात्र कार्या विचारणा

Transliteration

kulāni yānyatītāni bhaviṣyāṇi ca yāni vai | tārayetsa naro devi nātra kāryā vicāraṇā

Translation

हे देवी! जो असे करतो तो गेलेली व पुढे येणारी अशी सर्व कुलें तारतो; याविषयी विचार किंवा शंका करण्याचे कारण नाही.

Word by Word

• kulāni: families/lineages
• kulāni: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kula (कुल-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), बहुवचन

• yāni: which
• yāni: Visheshana (Relative qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (यद्-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), बहुवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक सर्वनाम

• atītāni: past
• atītāni: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: atīta (अतीत-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), बहुवचन; विशेषण

• bhaviṣyāṇi: future
• bhaviṣyāṇi: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: bhaviṣya (भविष्य-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), बहुवचन; विशेषण

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (च)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयार्थक अव्यय (conjunction)

• yāni: which
• yāni: Visheshana (Relative qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (यद्-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), बहुवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक सर्वनाम

• vai: indeed
• vai: Sambandha (Particle/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: vai (वै)
• Form: अव्यय; निपात (emphatic particle)

• tārayet: would save/should deliver
• tārayet: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √tṝ (तॄ) [तारयति]
• Form: विधिलिङ् (optative), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; णिच्-प्रयोग (causative sense: cause to cross/save)

• saḥ: he
• saḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (तद्-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• naraḥ: the man
• naraḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nara (नर-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1), एकवचन

• devi: O goddess
• devi: Sambodhana (Vocative/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: devī (देवी-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8), एकवचन

• na: not
• na: Sambandha (Negation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na (न)
• Form: अव्यय; निषेधार्थक निपात (negation)

• atra: here/in this matter
• atra: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: atra (अत्र)
• Form: अव्यय; देशवाचक (here)

• kāryā: necessary
• kāryā: Karta (Predicate nominal/कर्ता-सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kārya (कार्य-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1), एकवचन; भाववाचक (thing to be done/necessary)

• vicāraṇā: consideration, deliberation
• vicāraṇā: Karta (Predicate nominal/कर्ता-सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vicāraṇā (विचारणा-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1), एकवचन

Speaker

Śiva (Īśvara)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Brahmakuṇḍa/Mahākuṇḍa with Bhairaveśvara worship

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Mahādevī

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee offers water (tarpaṇa) at the kuṇḍa after worship; behind him, faint ancestral silhouettes rise upward, while unborn descendants are symbolically shown as a luminous lineage stream.

Characters & Entities

• kula (lineage)
• tāraṇa (deliverance)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

A devotee’s tīrtha-based worship is portrayed as benefitting not only oneself but one’s entire lineage—past and future.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The Bhairaveśvara/Brahmakuṇḍa pilgrimage setting of Prabhāsakṣetra (context from the surrounding verses).

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Implied continuation of the prior rite: bathing and worship at the site, yielding kula-tāraṇa as fruit.