Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 5

Devanagari script

सम्प्राप्ते च महाघोरे युगस्यान्ते महाक्षये । अनावृष्टिहते लोके पुरा वर्षशताधिके

Transliteration

samprāpte ca mahāghore yugasyānte mahākṣaye | anāvṛṣṭihate loke purā varṣaśatādhike

Translation

ਜਦ ਯੁਗ ਦਾ ਅਤਿ ਭਿਆਨਕ ਅੰਤ—ਮਹਾ-ਪ੍ਰਲਯ—ਆ ਪਹੁੰਚਿਆ, ਤਦ ਪੁਰਾਤਨ ਸਮੇਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਸੰਸਾਰ ਸੌ ਵਰ੍ਹਿਆਂ ਤੋਂ ਵੱਧ ਸੁੱਕੇ ਨਾਲ ਪੀੜਤ ਹੋ ਗਿਆ।

Word by Word

• samprāpte: when (it) had arrived
• samprāpte: Adhikarana (Locative absolute/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sam + prāp (धातु) → samprāpta (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त/PPP); पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; सति-सप्तमी (locative absolute)

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चय-बोधक अव्यय (conjunction)

• mahāghore: in the very dreadful (time)
• mahāghore: Adhikarana (Locative absolute qualifier/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: mahā (प्रातिपदिक) + ghora (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; समासः—कर्मधारयः; विशेषणम् (सम्प्राप्ते)

• yugasya: of the age (yuga)
• yugasya: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yuga (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), एकवचन

• ante: at the end
• ante: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: anta (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (7th/अधिकरण), एकवचन

• mahākṣaye: at the great destruction
• mahākṣaye: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mahā (प्रातिपदिक) + kṣaya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; समासः—कर्मधारयः

• anāvṛṣṭihate: in the world struck by drought
• anāvṛṣṭihate: Adhikarana (Location qualifier/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: an- (नञ्) + āvṛṣṭi (प्रातिपदिक) + hata (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुषः (न आवृष्टिः = अनावृष्टिः; अनावृष्ट्या हतः)

• loke: in the world
• loke: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: loka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (7th/अधिकरण), एकवचन

• purā: formerly, earlier
• purā: Kala (Time/काल)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: purā (अव्यय)
• Form: कालवाचक-अव्यय (adverb of time)

• varṣaśatādhike: after more than a hundred years
• varṣaśatādhike: Adhikarana (Time-location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: varṣa (प्रातिपदिक) + śata (प्रातिपदिक) + adhika (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग/पुंलिङ्ग; सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुषः (वर्षशतं अधिकम्)

Speaker

Narrator in Revā-khaṇḍa dialogue context (sage responding/setting scene)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A parched world at yugānta: cracked earth, withered trees, empty riverbeds, dust-laden sky; a sense of looming dissolution and silence over abandoned settlements.

Characters & Entities

• Yuga
• Mahākṣaya

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Worldly stability is fragile; Purāṇic accounts use yuga-end imagery to turn the mind toward lasting Dharma and sacred refuge.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

No site is named in this line; it is a backdrop within Revā Khaṇḍa’s tīrtha narrative.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; it describes conditions of drought at the yuga’s end.