Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 62

Devanagari script

पापाचारो हि भगवन्कश्चिन्नैव मया कृतः । विमृश्यतां मे सुकृतं याथातथ्येन भो यम

Transliteration

pāpācāro hi bhagavankaścinnaiva mayā kṛtaḥ | vimṛśyatāṃ me sukṛtaṃ yāthātathyena bho yama

Translation

Ele disse: “Ó Senhor, não cometi nenhum ato pecaminoso de propósito. Ó Yama, examina meus méritos tal como realmente são.”

Word by Word

• pāpācāraḥ: sinful conduct
• pāpācāraḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāpa + ācāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; समासः—पापः ācāraḥ (कर्मधारय/तत्पुरुष-प्रायः) ‘sinful conduct’

• hi: indeed
• hi: Sambandha-bodhaka (Discourse particle/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: hi (अव्यय)
• Form: निपात (emphatic/causal particle)

• bhagavan: O Lord
• bhagavan: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhagavat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th/Vocative), एकवचन; आदरसूचक संबोधन

• kaścit: any (at all)
• kaścit: Visheshya (Indefinite subject qualifier/विशेष्य)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kaścid (प्रातिपदिक/सर्वनाम)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; अनिश्चितवाचक सर्वनाम

• na: not
• na: Nishedha (Negation/निषेध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na (अव्यय)
• Form: निषेध-निपात (negation)

• eva: at all/indeed
• eva: Avadharana (Emphasis/अवधारण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva (अव्यय)
• Form: अवधारण-निपात (emphatic particle)

• mayā: by me
• mayā: Kartr̥ (Agent in passive/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• kṛtaḥ: done/committed
• kṛtaḥ: Kriya (Predicative/क्रिया-भाव)
• Type: Verb
• Root: kṛta (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √kṛ (धातु) + kta)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; भूतकृदन्त (past passive participle) used predicatively with implied ‘asti’

• vimṛśyatām: let (it) be examined
• vimṛśyatām: Kriya (Verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √mṛś (धातु) उपसर्ग vi-
• Form: लोट् (Imperative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; आत्मनेपद; कर्मणि-प्रयोगे ‘let it be examined/considered’

• me: my
• me: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• sukṛtam: good deed/merit
• sukṛtam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sukṛta (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन

• yāthātathyena: according to the truth/as it really is
• yāthātathyena: Karana (Manner/Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yāthātathya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), एकवचन; अव्ययीभाव-प्रायः ‘as it really is/according to truth’ (यथा + तथ्यम्)

• bho: O!
• bho: Sambodhana-suchaka (Address marker/सम्बोधनसूचक)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: bho (अव्यय)
• Form: सम्बोधन-निपात (vocative particle)

• yama: O Yama
• yama: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th/Vocative), एकवचन

Speaker

Kitava (gambler) speaking to Dharmarāja (Yama)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kedāra (contextual)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: The gambler, anxious yet composed, addresses Yama with folded hands, insisting he did not commit deliberate evil and requesting a true audit of his merits.

Characters & Entities

• Dharmarāja (Yama)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Karmic evaluation is precise; even a person of low conduct appeals to truthful accounting of sukṛta, anticipating Śiva’s grace through small offerings.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Kedāra-kṣetra in the broader chapter context, where Śiva-related acts are shown to bear extraordinary fruit.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None directly; it requests scrutiny of merit (sukṛta), which in context includes offerings to Śiva.