Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 40

Devanagari script

न चैव भवतां कोपस्तत्रस्थानां भविष्यति । प्रसादान्मम विप्रेंद्राः सत्यमेतन्मयोदितम्

Transliteration

na caiva bhavatāṃ kopastatrasthānāṃ bhaviṣyati | prasādānmama vipreṃdrāḥ satyametanmayoditam

Translation

न च भवतां तत्रावस्थानकाले कोपः कदाचन भविष्यति। मम प्रसादात्, हे विप्रेन्द्राः, सत्यमेतन्मया प्रोक्तम्॥

Word by Word

• na: not
• na: Sambandha (Discourse particle/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na (अव्यय)
• Form: निषेधार्थक-अव्यय (negative particle)

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

• eva: indeed/just
• eva: Sambandha (Emphasis/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva (अव्यय)
• Form: अवधारणार्थक-अव्यय (emphatic particle)

• bhavatām: of you (honored ones)
• bhavatām: Sambandha (Genitive/षष्ठी-सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhavat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), बहुवचन; आदरार्थे ‘भवत्’ (honorific you)

• kopaḥ: anger
• kopaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kopa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• tatra: there
• tatra: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatra (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक-अव्यय (locative adverb: there)

• sthānām: of those staying/being present
• sthānām: Sambandha (Genitive/षष्ठी-सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sthāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), बहुवचन

• bhaviṣyati: will be
• bhaviṣyati: Kriya (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: bhū (धातु)
• Form: लृट् (Simple Future), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• prasādāt: from (my) grace/favor
• prasādāt: Hetu (Cause/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prasāda (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/Ablative), एकवचन

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

• vipra-indrāḥ: O best of Brahmins
• vipra-indrāḥ: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vipra (प्रातिपदिक) + indra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (viprāṇām indraḥ → viprendrāḥ)

• satyam: truth
• satyam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: satya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; वाक्ये विधेय-विशेषणवत्

• etat: this
• etat: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: etad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन

• mayā: by me
• mayā: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), एकवचन; उत्तमपुरुष-सर्वनाम

• uditam: spoken/said
• uditam: Kriya (Predicate complement/क्रिया-विशेषण)
• Type: Verb
• Root: udita (कृदन्त; √vad/√ud? here from √vad with ud- prefix: udita = spoken)
• Form: भूतकर्मणि कृदन्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘उदित’ = उक्तम्

Speaker

Indra

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kūpyā

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: viprendra/dvija-śreṣṭhas (assembled brāhmaṇas)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A revered speaker assures assembled brāhmaṇas that while staying at the sacred spot their anger will not arise, sealing the promise with a truth-declaration.

Characters & Entities

• Indra

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Divine grace and sacred space together aid inner purification—anger subsides when one abides rightly in a holy kṣetra.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The statement concerns those ‘staying there’ in the Hāṭakeśvara kṣetra of Adhyāya 206.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

An implied discipline of residence in the kṣetra with emotional restraint, supported by divine prasāda.