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Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 35

Devanagari script

अस्थिचर्मावशेषाङ्गाः कपालोद्धृतपाणयः । अलब्धग्रासमर्द्धार्धं निर्ययुर्नगराद्बहिः

Transliteration

asthicarmāvaśeṣāṅgāḥ kapāloddhṛtapāṇayaḥ | alabdhagrāsamarddhārdhaṃ niryayurnagarādbahiḥ

Translation

Dengan tubuh tinggal sisa tulang dan kulit, tangan mengangkat mangkuk sedekah daripada tengkorak, dan tanpa memperoleh walau setengah suapan, mereka pun keluar meninggalkan kota.

Word by Word
asthibone
asthi:
Sambandha (Compound member/समासाङ्ग)
TypeNoun
Rootasthi (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रातिपदिक-रूप (समासाङ्ग); “अस्थि” (bone)
carmaskin
carma:
Sambandha (Compound member/समासाङ्ग)
TypeNoun
Rootcarma (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रातिपदिक-रूप (समासाङ्ग); “चर्म” (skin)
avaśeṣāṅgāḥwith only remnants of limbs
avaśeṣāṅgāḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeAdjective
Rootavaśeṣa + aṅga (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; तत्पुरुष—“अवशेषाणि अङ्गानि येषाम्” इत्यर्थे (remnant-limbed)
kapālaskull-bowl
kapāla:
Sambandha (Compound member/समासाङ्ग)
TypeNoun
Rootkapāla (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रातिपदिक-रूप (समासाङ्ग); “कपाल” (skull/bowl)
uddhṛtaheld up
uddhṛta:
Sambandha (Compound member/समासाङ्ग)
TypeAdjective
Rootuddhṛta (कृदन्त, ud + √hṛ/हृ हरणे)
Formपुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रातिपदिक-रूप (समासाङ्ग); भूतकृदन्त (क्त) “उद्धृत” (raised/held up)
pāṇayaḥhands
pāṇayaḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootpāṇi (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; “हस्ताः”
kapāloddhṛtapāṇayaḥwith hands holding skull-bowls
kapāloddhṛtapāṇayaḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeAdjective
Rootkapāla + uddhṛta + pāṇi (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; बहुव्रीहि—“कपालम् उद्धृतं पाणौ येषाम्/कपालं उद्धृतपाणयः” (whose hands hold up a skull-bowl)
alabdhanot obtained
alabdha:
Sambandha (Compound member/समासाङ्ग)
TypeAdjective
Rootalabdha (कृदन्त, √labh/लभ प्राप्तौ)
Formप्रातिपदिक-रूप (समासाङ्ग); नञ्-पूर्वक भूतकृदन्त (क्त) “अलब्ध” (not obtained)
grāsaa mouthful
grāsa:
Sambandha (Compound member/समासाङ्ग)
TypeNoun
Rootgrāsa (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रातिपदिक-रूप (समासाङ्ग); “ग्रास” (mouthful of food)
marddhahalf
marddha:
Sambandha (Compound member/समासाङ्ग)
TypeNoun
Rootmarddha (प्रातिपदिक)
Formप्रातिपदिक-रूप (समासाङ्ग); “अर्ध” इत्यर्थे पाठभेद/रूपभेद (half)
ardhamhalf
ardham:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootardha (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/कर्म), एकवचन; “अर्धम्” (half)
alabdhagrāsamarddhārdhamnot obtaining even half a mouthful
alabdhagrāsamarddhārdham:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeAdjective
Rootalabdha + grāsa + marddha + ardha (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष-समास—“अलब्धः ग्रासः (येषाम्), (तस्य) अर्धम्” इत्यर्थे; क्रियाविशेषणवत्—“(even) half a mouthful not obtained”
niryayuḥthey went out
niryayuḥ:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootnir + √yā (या प्रापणे/गत्यर्थे)
Formलिट् (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष, बहुवचन; परस्मैपद; “निर्ययुः” (they went out)
nagarātfrom the city
nagarāt:
Apadana (Ablative/अपादान)
TypeNoun
Rootnagara (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/अपादान), एकवचन; “नगरात्” (from the city)
bahiḥoutside
bahiḥ:
Kriya-visheṣaṇa (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootbahiḥ (अव्यय)
Formदेशवाचक अव्यय (adverb: “outside”)
Speaker

Śaṅkara (Śiva) (deduced from 133.38)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Type: ghat

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Gaunt figures—Lokapālas in a deliberately humbled, ascetic guise—holding skull-bowls, leaving the city after failing to obtain even half a morsel; stark contrast between divine status and destitution.

Characters & Entities
L
Lokapāla
K
Kapāla (skull-bowl)

FAQs

Pride and wrongdoing can reduce even exalted beings to destitution; suffering becomes a visible sign of karmic consequence.

The passage remains within the Revā-khaṇḍa’s sacred landscape, preparing for later tīrtha-phala statements in the same adhyāya.

No direct prescription here; it narrates the state of hunger and alms-seeking (bhaikṣa) as consequence.

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