Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 71
Devanagari script
। अध्याय
Transliteration
| adhyāya
Translation
“அத்தியாயம்” — நூல்/பரம்பரையில் அத்தியாயப் பிரிவைக் குறிக்கும் குறியீடு.
Word by Word
अध्यायchapter
अध्याय:
Sambandha (Heading/संबन्ध)
TypeNoun
Rootअध्याय (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्गः, प्रथमा-विभक्तिः (Nominative), एकवचनम्; शीर्षक-शब्दः (chapter-heading)
Speaker
Narrative/Redactional marker (not a spoken verse)
Visual Art Cues
Scene: A palm-leaf or birch-bark manuscript folio with the single rubric ‘अध्याय’, indicating a fresh chapter opening in a pilgrimage narrative.
FAQs
This is not a teaching verse; it is a structural marker used to indicate a chapter boundary.
None; the line is a redactional label rather than a tīrtha description.
None.