Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 10

Devanagari script

प्रद्युम्नाय नमस्तुभ्यमनिरुद्धाय ते नमः । नमः कंसविनाशाय नमश्चाणूरमर्दिने

Transliteration

pradyumnāya namastubhyamaniruddhāya te namaḥ | namaḥ kaṃsavināśāya namaścāṇūramardine

Translation

Saudações a Pradyumna; saudações a Aniruddha. Saudações ao Destruidor de Kaṃsa; saudações ao Esmagador de Cāṇūra.

Word by Word

• प्रद्युम्नाय: to Pradyumna
• प्रद्युम्नाय: Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रद्युम्न (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th/Dative), एकवचन

• नमः: salutation; obeisance
• नमः: Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नमस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय; नमस्कारार्थक-निपात (salutatory particle)

• तुभ्यम्: to you
• तुभ्यम्: Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, चतुर्थी (4th/Dative), एकवचन

• अनिरुद्धाय: to Aniruddha
• अनिरुद्धाय: Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनिरुद्ध (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th/Dative), एकवचन

• ते: to you
• ते: Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, चतुर्थी (4th/Dative), एकवचन (enclitic)

• नमः: salutation
• नमः: Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नमस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय; नमस्कारार्थक-निपात (salutatory particle)

• नमः: salutation
• नमः: Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नमस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय; नमस्कारार्थक-निपात (salutatory particle)

• कंस-विनाशाय: to the destroyer of Kaṃsa / to Kaṃsa-destruction
• कंस-विनाशाय: Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कंस (प्रातिपदिक) + विनाश (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष: कंसस्य विनाशः); पुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th/Dative), एकवचन

• नमः: salutation
• नमः: Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नमस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय; नमस्कारार्थक-निपात (salutatory particle)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयार्थक-अव्यय (conjunction)

• आणूर-मर्दिने: to the crusher of Cāṇūra
• आणूर-मर्दिने: Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: आणूर (प्रातिपदिक) + मर्दिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (कर्मधारय/उपपद-तत्पुरुष: आणूरं मर्दयति इति); पुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th/Dative), एकवचन

Speaker

Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Avimukta-kṣetra (Kāśī)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee in Kāśī offers añjali while visualizing Kṛṣṇa’s youthful heroism—Kaṃsa’s fall and Cāṇūra’s defeat—within a sanctified ghāṭa setting.

Characters & Entities

• Pradyumna
• Aniruddha
• Kṛṣṇa/Viṣṇu
• Kaṃsa
• Cāṇūra

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

The Lord protects devotees by uprooting tyrannical adharma, both outwardly and within the heart.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Kāśī is the textual setting; the verse itself remembers Kṛṣṇa’s līlā rather than a named tīrtha.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; it is praise meant for devotional recitation.