Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 61

Devanagari script

अथ नष्टेषु सर्वेषु प्रमथेषु हरेर्भयात् । चुकोप वीरभद्रः स प्रलयानलसंनिभः

Transliteration

atha naṣṭeṣu sarveṣu pramatheṣu harerbhayāt | cukopa vīrabhadraḥ sa pralayānalasaṃnibhaḥ

Translation

ထို့နောက် ဟရီ (ဗိဿဏု) ကို ကြောက်ရွံ့၍ ပ္ရမထာတို့အားလုံး ပျက်စီးသွားသောအခါ ဗီရဘဒ္ဒရသည် ကာလအဆုံး ပျက်ကွက်မီးတောက်ကဲ့သို့ အမျက်တော်ထန်လာ၏။

Word by Word

• अथ: then
• अथ: Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अथ (अव्यय)
• Form: अनन्तरार्थक-अव्ययम् (then/thereupon)

• नष्टेषु: when (they were) destroyed
• नष्टेषु: Adhikarana (Locus/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नश् (धातु) → नष्ट (कृदन्त)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त), पुंलिङ्गे/नपुंसके, सप्तमी (7th/अधिकरण), बहुवचन; विशेषणम् (प्रमथेषु)

• सर्वेषु: in all
• सर्वेषु: Adhikarana (Locus/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, बहुवचन; विशेषणम् (प्रमथेषु)

• प्रमथेषु: among the Pramathas
• प्रमथेषु: Adhikarana (Locus/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रमथ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, बहुवचन

• हरेः: of Hari (Vishnu)
• हरेः: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: हरि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), एकवचन

• भयात्: from fear / out of fear
• भयात्: Apadana (Source/Cause/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/अपादान), एकवचन

• चुकोप: became angry
• चुकोप: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: कुप् (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect/परस्मैपद), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपदी

• वीरभद्रः: Vīrabhadra
• वीरभद्रः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वीरभद्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• स: he
• स: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• प्रलयानलसंनिभः: like the fire of dissolution
• प्रलयानलसंनिभः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रलय + अनल + संनिभ (प्रातिपदिक-समाहार)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुषः (प्रलयस्य अनल इव संनिभः) विशेषणम् (वीरभद्रः)

Speaker

Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa narration, typically Skanda to Agastya)

Characters & Entities

• Vīrabhadra
• Hari
• Viṣṇu
• Pramathas

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Unchecked fear and conflict ignite destructive anger; dharma requires restraint even amid cosmic power.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Kāśī is the overarching sacred setting of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa, though this verse focuses on the mythic confrontation.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No explicit rite is prescribed here; the verse narrates Vīrabhadra’s wrath.