Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 52

Devanagari script

विसर्ज्जनीयश्च परो जिह्वामूलीय एव च । उपध्मानीय एवापि द्विपंचाशदमी स्मृताः

Transliteration

visarjjanīyaśca paro jihvāmūlīya eva ca | upadhmānīya evāpi dvipaṃcāśadamī smṛtāḥ

Translation

E o visarga, o som “para”, o jihvāmūlīya e o upadhmānīya—assim são lembrados, perfazendo o total de cinquenta e dois.

Word by Word

• visarjanīyaḥ: visarga (ḥ)
• visarjanīyaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: visarjanīya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन

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

• paraḥ: the next/following
• paraḥ: Karta (Qualifier/कर्ता-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: para (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; विशेषण (visarjanīyaḥ)

• jihvāmūlīyaḥ: jihvāmūlīya (special ḥ before k/kh)
• jihvāmūlīyaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: jihvā-mūlīya (जिह्वा + मूलिय) (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष: जिह्वायाः मूलम्-सम्बद्धः (guttural aspirate sign)

• eva: indeed
• eva: Sambandha (Emphasis/अवधारण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (emphatic): एव

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

• upadhmānīyaḥ: upadhmānīya (special ḥ before p/ph)
• upadhmānīyaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: upadhmānīya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन

• eva: indeed
• eva: Sambandha (Emphasis/अवधारण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (emphatic): एव

• api: also
• api: Sambandha (Addition/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: api (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (particle): अपि (also/even)

• dvipañcāśadamī: these (making) fifty-two
• dvipañcāśadamī: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: dvi-pañcāśat-amī (द्वि + पञ्चाशत् + अमी) (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; द्विगु-समास (52nd/relating to fifty-two) + अमी (these); अत्र 'अमी' इत्यस्य समासीकृत-रूपेण पाठः

• smṛtāḥ: are considered/are said to be
• smṛtāḥ: Kriya (Predicate participle/विधेय)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √smṛ (स्मृ) (धातु) + kta
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त (past passive participle), पुंलिङ्ग प्रथमा बहुवचन; 'are remembered/counted'

Speaker

Sutanū

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: The brāhmaṇa questioner

Visual Art Cues

Scene: The final ‘missing’ sounds appear as four distinct luminous marks: visarga as twin dots, and the special guttural/labial breath-marks (jihvāmūlīya, upadhmānīya), completing a circular alphabet-mandala to signify wholeness (pūrṇatā).

Characters & Entities

• visarjanīya (visarga)
• jihvāmūlīya
• upadhmānīya
• Mātr̥kā

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Even subtle speech-sounds are preserved as sacred knowledge; tradition safeguards the full body of mantra-sound.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

None; the passage is technical/doctrinal.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None explicitly.