Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 73
Devanagari script
एवं षोडशभिश्चंद्रः स्तोतव्यो नामभिः क्रमात्
Transliteration
evaṃ ṣoḍaśabhiścaṃdraḥ stotavyo nāmabhiḥ kramāt
Translation
अशा रीतीने चंद्रदेवाची सोळा नावांनी क्रमाने स्तुती करावी।
Word by Word
एवम्thus
एवम्:
Sambandha (Adverbial/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएवम् (अव्यय)
Formप्रकारार्थक-अव्यय (adverb: ‘thus’)
षोडशभिःwith sixteen
षोडशभिः:
Karana (Instrument/करण)
TypeAdjective
Rootषोडशन् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formविशेषण-प्रयोगः; नपुंसकलिङ्ग/पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), बहुवचन
चand
च:
Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formसमुच्चयार्थक-अव्यय (conjunction)
चन्द्रःthe Moon
चन्द्रः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootचन्द्र (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन
स्तोतव्यःis to be praised
स्तोतव्यः:
Vidhi (Obligation predicate/विधेय)
TypeAdjective
Rootस्तु (धातु) + तव्यत् (कृत्प्रत्यय)
Formतव्यत्-कृदन्त (gerundive/future passive participle); पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; विधेय-विशेषणम्
नामभिःby names
नामभिः:
Karana (Instrument/करण)
TypeNoun
Rootनामन् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), बहुवचन
क्रमात्in sequence
क्रमात्:
Sambandha (Adverbial/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootक्रम (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपञ्चमी-एकवचनरूपेण अव्ययीभाववत् (adverbial ablative: ‘in order/successively’)
Speaker
Brahmā (deduced; Vaiṣṇava-khaṇḍa narration style)
Tirtha Mahatmya
Tirtha: Ayodhyā-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Visual Art Cues
Scene: A restrained devotee in Ayodhyā performs candra-stuti, counting sixteen names on fingers or mālā, with the full moon above and a calm riverbank/ghāṭa ambience.
Characters & Entities
C
CandraṢ
Ṣoḍaśa-nāma (sixteen names)FAQs
Disciplined, ordered praise (kramāt) is itself a form of dharma—training attention and devotion.
Ayodhyā is the sacred context where such prescribed worship is said to yield merit.
Recitation of sixteen epithets of the Moon, in sequence, as a formal stotra component.