Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 39
Devanagari script
हंसयाने नमस्तुभ्यं सर्वसृष्टिविधायिनि । प्राचां वाचां जन्मभूमे चतुराननरूपिणि
Transliteration
haṃsayāne namastubhyaṃ sarvasṛṣṭividhāyini | prācāṃ vācāṃ janmabhūme caturānanarūpiṇi
Translation
ဟံသာယာန (ဟင်္သာစီး) တော်မူသောအရှင်မ၊ နမಸ್ಕာရပါ၏; စကြဝဠာဖန်ဆင်းမှုအားလုံးကို စီမံတော်မူသောအရှင်မ။ ရှေးဟောင်း ဝေဒဝါဏီနှင့် သန့်ရှင်းသော ဝါစာ၏ မွေးရာမြေ၊ စတုရာနန (ဗြဟ္မာ) ရုပ်သဏ္ဍာန်ဖြစ်တော်မူသောအရှင်မ၊ နမಸ್ಕာရပါ၏။
Word by Word
haṃsa-yāneO (one) with a swan as vehicle
haṃsa-yāne:
Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
TypeNoun
Roothaṃsa (प्रातिपदिक) + yāna (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष: हंसस्य यानम् (whose vehicle is a swan)
namaḥsalutation
namaḥ:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootnamas (प्रातिपदिक)
Formअव्यय, नमस्कारार्थक-निपात
tubhyamto you
tubhyam:
Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
TypeNoun
Roottvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formसर्वनाम, चतुर्थी-विभक्ति (Dative/4th), एकवचन
sarva-sṛṣṭi-vidhāyiniO ordainer of all creation
sarva-sṛṣṭi-vidhāyini:
Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
TypeNoun
Rootsarva (प्रातिपदिक) + sṛṣṭi (प्रातिपदिक) + vidhāyinī (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन; समासः: सर्वस्य सृष्टेः विधायिनी (one who ordains all creation)
prācāmof the ancient/foremost
prācām:
Shashthi-sambandha (Genitive relation/षष्ठी)
TypeAdjective
Rootprāc (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive/6th), बहुवचन; विशेषण (qualifying)
vācāmof speeches/words
vācām:
Shashthi-sambandha (Genitive relation/षष्ठी)
TypeNoun
Rootvāc (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive/6th), बहुवचन
janma-bhūmeO birthplace/origin
janma-bhūme:
Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
TypeNoun
Rootjanman (प्रातिपदिक) + bhūmi (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष: जन्मनः भूमिः
catur-ānana-rūpiṇiO one having the form of the four-faced (Brahmā)
catur-ānana-rūpiṇi:
Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
TypeNoun
Rootcatur (प्रातिपदिक) + ānana (प्रातिपदिक) + rūpiṇī (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन; समासः: चत्वारि आननानि यस्याः/यस्य रूपम् (having the form of the four-faced one)
Speaker
Devas
Characters & Entities
M
Mahādevī (Durgā)B
Brahmā (Caturānana)H
Haṃsa (swan)V
Vāc (sacred speech/Veda)FAQs
All knowledge and creation arise from the Divine; the Goddess is revered as the very source of Vedic speech and order.
The Kāśīkhaṇḍa setting frames the hymn; Kāśī is upheld as a kṣetra where Vedic and purāṇic praise naturally culminate.
No explicit prescription; it models stotra-recitation as a devotional offering.