Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 73
Devanagari script
। अध्याय
Transliteration
| adhyāya
Translation
॥ ଇତି ଅଧ୍ୟାୟ ସମାପ୍ତ ॥
Word by Word
अध्यायchapter
अध्याय:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootअध्याय (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular)
Speaker
Redactional/colophon text (not a spoken verse)
Visual Art Cues
Scene: A manuscript-like closing: a scribe’s final daṇḍas and the word ‘adhyāya’, with a calm pause before the next sacred geography begins.
FAQs
This is not a doctrinal verse; it is a textual marker indicating a chapter boundary.
None; it functions as a manuscript/edition divider.
None.