Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 165

Devanagari script

न च पत्रोर्णकुसुमैर्न चैवोन्मत्तसंभवैः । न चाम्रातकजैः पुष्पैरर्चनीयो दिवाकरः

Transliteration

na ca patrorṇakusumairna caivonmattasaṃbhavaiḥ | na cāmrātakajaiḥ puṣpairarcanīyo divākaraḥ

Translation

दिवाकराची (सूर्याची) पूजा पत्रोर्ण फुलांनी, उन्मत्ता वनस्पतीतून उत्पन्न फुलांनी, तसेच आम्रातकाच्या फुलांनी करू नये.

Word by Word

• न: not
• न: Negation (निषेध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, निषेध (negation particle)

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

• पत्रोर्णकुसुमैः: with patrorṇa-flowers (leaf-wool flowers)
• पत्रोर्णकुसुमैः: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पत्र + ऊर्ण + कुसुम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति, बहुवचन

• न: not
• न: Negation (निषेध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, निषेध

• च: and
• च: Connector (समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, समुच्चय

• एव: indeed/just
• एव: Emphasis (अवधारण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, अवधारण (emphatic particle)

• उन्मत्तसंभवैः: with those arising from unmatta
• उन्मत्तसंभवैः: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उन्मत्त + संभव (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग (सन्दर्भे पुष्पैः—नपुंसक), तृतीया-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; विशेषणम् (originating from the unmatta plant)

• न: not
• न: Negation (निषेध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, निषेध

• च: and
• च: Connector (समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, समुच्चय

• आम्रातकजैः: with āmrātaka-born
• आम्रातकजैः: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: आम्रातक + ज (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (पुष्पैः सह), तृतीया-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; विशेषणम् (born of āmrātaka)

• पुष्पैः: with flowers
• पुष्पैः: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुष्प (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति, बहुवचन

• अर्चनीयः: to be worshipped
• अर्चनीयः: Karta-predicative (विधेय-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अर्च् (धातु) + अनीयर् (कृदन्त-प्रत्यय)
• Form: कृदन्त (अनीयर्, gerundive), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; विधेय-विशेषणम्

• दिवाकरः: the Sun
• दिवाकरः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: दिवाकर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

Speaker

Unspecified (contextual narrator in Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Arkasthala (Sūrya-sthāna)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A priest instructs devotees at Arkasthala, gently setting aside forbidden blossoms (patorṇa, unmattā, āmrātaka) and indicating the correct flowers for Sūrya worship; the Sun icon glows steadily, emphasizing order and purity.

Characters & Entities

• Divākara (Sūrya)
• Patrorṇa flower
• Unmattā plant
• Āmrātaka

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Devotion is guided by dharma: correct worship includes knowing which offerings are ritually unsuitable.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The rules are given in the Arkasthala context within Prabhāsakṣetra.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

A prohibition: do not offer patrorṇa, unmattā-derived, or āmrātaka flowers in the worship of Divākara (Sūrya).