Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 12

Devanagari script

दर्शनात्तस्य तीर्थस्य पापराशिर्विलीयते । स्नानमात्रेण राजेन्द्र ब्रह्महत्यां व्यपोहति

Transliteration

darśanāttasya tīrthasya pāparāśirvilīyate | snānamātreṇa rājendra brahmahatyāṃ vyapohati

Translation

Dengan sekadar menatap tīrtha itu, timbunan dosa pun luluh. Wahai raja segala raja, dengan mandi sahaja, bahkan dosa brahmahatyā yang paling berat pun dapat disingkirkan.

Word by Word

• दर्शनात्: from (mere) seeing
• दर्शनात्: Apadana (Cause/Source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: दर्शन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; पञ्चमी (5th/अपादान), एकवचन

• तस्य: of that
• तस्य: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग; षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), एकवचन

• तीर्थस्य: of the sacred ford
• तीर्थस्य: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), एकवचन

• पापराशिः: the heap of sins
• पापराशिः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाप (प्रातिपदिक) + राशि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा (1st/कर्ता), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (पापानां राशिः)

• विलीयते: dissolves, disappears
• विलीयते: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि + ली (धातु)
• Form: लट् (present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; आत्मनेपद

• स्नानमात्रेण: by bathing alone
• स्नानमात्रेण: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्नान (प्रातिपदिक) + मात्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; तृतीया (3rd/करण), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (स्नानस्य मात्रेण = by bathing alone)

• राजेन्द्र: O lord of kings
• राजेन्द्र: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजेन्द्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; सम्बोधन (8th), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (राज्ञाम् इन्द्रः)

• ब्रह्महत्याम्: the sin of brahmin-slaying
• ब्रह्महत्याम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्रह्मन् (प्रातिपदिक) + हत्या (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; द्वितीया (2nd/कर्म), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (ब्रह्मणः हत्या)

• व्यपोहति: removes, dispels
• व्यपोहति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि + अप + ऊह्/अपोह् (धातु)
• Form: लट् (present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

Speaker

Sūta (deduced)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Agnitīrtha

Type: tirtha

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: King (rājendra)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee beholds Agnitīrtha midstream; dark ‘mass of sins’ is visualized as dissolving mist; the bather emerges radiant, symbolically freed even from brahmahatyā.

Characters & Entities

• Agnitīrtha (implied from previous verse)
• Brahmahatyā

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Sacred places are moral-spiritual technologies: darśana and snāna, done with faith, function as powerful purification.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

That tīrtha referenced in-context—Agnitīrtha in the Revā Khaṇḍa sequence.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Darśana (visiting/seeing the tīrtha) and snāna (ritual bath) as purificatory acts.