Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 15

Devanagari script

शक्तिं जग्राह दुर्धर्षां शतघंटामहास्वनाम् । प्रेषिता सा तदा शक्तिर्दारयामास तं हृति

Transliteration

śaktiṃ jagrāha durdharṣāṃ śataghaṃṭāmahāsvanām | preṣitā sā tadā śaktirdārayāmāsa taṃ hṛti

Translation

သူသည် တားမရနိုင်သော ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ် လှံတံကို ကိုင်ယူ၏၊ ခေါင်းလောင်းတစ်ရာကဲ့သို့ မြည်ဟည်းသံကြီး။ ထိုလှံကို ပစ်လွှတ်သော် ထိုခဏ၌ သူ၏ နှလုံးကို ထိုးဖောက်လေ၏။

Word by Word

• śaktim: a spear/weapon (śakti)
• śaktim: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śakti (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्गः, द्वितीया, एकवचनम्

• jagrāha: seized
• jagrāha: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: grah (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), परस्मैपदम्, प्रथमपुरुषः, एकवचनम्

• durdharṣām: irresistible; hard to withstand
• durdharṣām: Karma (Object-qualifier/कर्मविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: dur-dharṣa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्गः, द्वितीया, एकवचनम्; ‘शक्तिम्’ इति विशेषणम्

• śataghaṃṭāmahāsvanām: having a great sound of a hundred bells
• śataghaṃṭāmahāsvanām: Karma (Object-qualifier/कर्मविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: śata (प्रातिपदिक) + ghaṃṭā (प्रातिपदिक) + mahā (प्रातिपदिक) + svana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: बहुपद-तत्पुरुषसमासः (विशेषणसमासः: ‘शतघण्टानां महत् स्वनः यस्याः’ इत्यर्थे), स्त्रीलिङ्गः, द्वितीया, एकवचनम्; ‘शक्तिम्’ इति विशेषणम्

• preṣitā: sent/shot
• preṣitā: Karta (Subject-qualifier/कर्तृविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: preṣ (धातु) + kta (क्त)
• Form: भूतकर्मणि कृदन्तः, स्त्रीलिङ्गः, प्रथमा, एकवचनम्; ‘सा शक्तिः’ इति विशेषणम्

• sā: she/that (weapon)
• sā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, स्त्रीलिङ्गः, प्रथमा, एकवचनम्

• tadā: then
• tadā: Kriya-visheṣaṇa (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tadā (अव्यय)
• Form: कालवाचक-अव्ययम् (temporal adverb)

• śaktiḥ: the spear/weapon
• śaktiḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śakti (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्गः, प्रथमा, एकवचनम्

• dārayāmāsa: tore/pierced
• dārayāmāsa: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: dṛ (धातु; दारणे) + ṇic (णिच्)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), परस्मैपदम्, प्रथमपुरुषः, एकवचनम्; णिजन्त (causative) रूपम्

• tam: him
• tam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, पुंलिङ्गः, द्वितीया, एकवचनम्

• hṛti: in the heart
• hṛti: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: hṛt (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्गः (हृद्-शब्दः), सप्तमी (Locative/अधिकरण), एकवचनम्

Speaker

Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) narrating to the sages (deduced)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Kubera raises a fearsome spear that seems to ring like a hundred bells; as it flies, it leaves a luminous arc and strikes Kujaṃbha squarely in the chest/heart, the impact shown as a burst of light and shockwaves.

Characters & Entities

• Śakti (spear weapon)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Pāpa-like violence rebounds as suffering; the Purāṇic battlefield often mirrors inner conflict where pride invites a piercing fall.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

No tīrtha is mentioned in this verse.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None.