Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 13

Devanagari script

अहं वरप्रदस्तेषां तारयिष्यामि तत्क्षणात् । पितृन्सर्वान्न संदेहो यदि पापशतैर्वृताः

Transliteration

ahaṃ varapradasteṣāṃ tārayiṣyāmi tatkṣaṇāt | pitṛnsarvānna saṃdeho yadi pāpaśatairvṛtāḥ

Translation

मी वरदाता आहे; त्यांच्या सर्व पितरांचा मी तत्क्षणी उद्धार करीन—यात संशय नाही—जरी ते शेकडो पापांनी वेढलेले असतील तरीही।

Word by Word

• aham: I
• aham: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (अस्मद् सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: उत्तमपुरुष-सर्वनाम; प्रथमा, एकवचन

• vara-pradaḥ: giver of boons
• vara-pradaḥ: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vara (वर) + prada (प्रद, √dā धातु से ‘प्रद’ प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; तत्पुरुष-समास (वरं प्रददाति इति)

• teṣām: of them
• teṣām: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (तद् सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी, बहुवचन

• tārayiṣyāmi: I will deliver/save
• tārayiṣyāmi: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √tṛ (तॄ धातु) + णिच् (तारयति)
• Form: लृट्-लकार (Future/भविष्यत्), उत्तमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद; णिजन्त (causative)

• tat-kṣaṇāt: immediately, at that moment
• tat-kṣaṇāt: Apadana (Source/Time-from/अपादान)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tat (तद्) + kṣaṇa (क्षण)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (Ablative/पञ्चमी), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष-समास; ‘तत्क्षणात्’ = ‘at that very moment/from that moment’ (ablatival adverbial use)

• pitṝn: the ancestors
• pitṝn: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pitṛ (पितृ, प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, बहुवचन

• sarvān: all
• sarvān: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (सर्व, प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, बहुवचन; ‘pitṝn’ इत्यस्य विशेषणम्

• na: no, not
• na: Sambandha (Negation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na (अव्यय)
• Form: निषेधार्थक-अव्यय

• saṃdehaḥ: doubt
• saṃdehaḥ: Karta (Predicate nominal/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃdeha (संदेह, प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• yadi: even if, if
• yadi: Sambandha (Condition/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yadi (अव्यय)
• Form: शर्तवाचक-अव्यय (conditional particle)

• pāpa-śataiḥ: by hundreds of sins
• pāpa-śataiḥ: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāpa (पाप) + śata (शत)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन; तत्पुरुष-समास (पापानां शतानि)

• vṛtāḥ: surrounded, enveloped
• vṛtāḥ: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vṛta (√vṛ ‘to cover/surround’, क्त; कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (surrounded)

Speaker

Īśvara/Śiva (continuing as Śrī Bhagavān in this passage)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (pitṛ-uddhāra efficacy)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Interlocutors within the Prabhāsa māhātmya narrative

Visual Art Cues

Scene: The Lord as boon-giver proclaims immediate rescue of the Pitṛs; behind the devotee performing tarpaṇa, shadowy sin-bonds around ancestors dissolve into light.

Characters & Entities

• Varaprada
• Pitṛs
• Pāpa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Divine grace at a sanctified tīrtha can overcome even heavy karmic burdens when approached with dharmic intent.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra, where the Lord promises immediate upliftment for the Pitṛs.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

The verse is the Lord’s assurance tied to the preceding acts of snāna and pitṛ-tarpaṇa.