Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 72

Devanagari script

महापातकिनो ये तु ये तु विप्रैर्बहिष्कृताः । न च ते संस्पृशेयुर्वै ब्रह्माणं बालरूपिणम्

Transliteration

mahāpātakino ye tu ye tu viprairbahiṣkṛtāḥ | na ca te saṃspṛśeyurvai brahmāṇaṃ bālarūpiṇam

Translation

Но великие грешники и те, кого брахманы отлучили, не должны даже прикасаться к Брахме, пребывающему в облике ребёнка.

Word by Word

• mahā-pātakinaḥ: great sinners
• mahā-pātakinaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mahā (प्रातिपदिक) + pātakin (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; ‘great sinners’

• ye: who
• ye: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; सम्बन्धक सर्वनाम

• tu: but/indeed
• tu: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; विरोध/विशेषार्थक (but/indeed)

• ye: who
• ye: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; पुनरुक्त-सम्बन्धक

• tu: indeed
• tu: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; विशेषार्थक

• vipraiḥ: by Brahmins
• vipraiḥ: Karta (Agent/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vipra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd), बहुवचन

• bahiṣkṛtāḥ: excluded
• bahiṣkṛtāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: bahis-√kṛ (धातु) + kta (कृदन्त प्रत्यय)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त; ‘excluded/expelled’

• na: not
• na: Sambandha (Negation/निषेध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निषेध (negation)

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयार्थक (and)

• te: they
• te: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; सर्वनाम

• saṃspṛśeyuḥ: should touch
• saṃspṛśeyuḥ: Kriyā (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: sam-√spṛś (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), परस्मैपदम्, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), बहुवचन

• vai: indeed
• vai: Sambandha (Emphasis/निश्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: vai (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निश्चयार्थक/खल्वर्थक (indeed)

• brahmāṇam: Brahmā
• brahmāṇam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: brahman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन

• bāla-rūpiṇam: in child-form
• bāla-rūpiṇam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: bāla (प्रातिपदिक) + rūpin (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; विशेषणम्—brahmāṇam इति विशेष्यस्य

Speaker

Sūta (deduced)

Characters & Entities

• Prabhāsakṣetra
• Brahmā (Pitāmaha)
• Bālarūpī Brahmā
• mahāpātaka

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Sacred worship requires moral and ritual fitness; grave wrongdoing disrupts eligibility for intimate temple contact.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsakṣetra, with emphasis on the sanctity of Brahmā’s bāla-rūpa worship and its strict proprieties.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

A restriction: those branded as mahāpātakins or formally excluded are not to touch the deity (Brahmā in child-form).