Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 101

Devanagari script

यद्भूतं यद्भविष्यच्च तीर्थमाहात्म्यमुत्तमम् । कथितं ते मया सर्वं पृथग्भावेन भारत

Transliteration

yadbhūtaṃ yadbhaviṣyacca tīrthamāhātmyamuttamam | kathitaṃ te mayā sarvaṃ pṛthagbhāvena bhārata

Translation

โอ ภารตะ ความยิ่งใหญ่สูงสุดแห่งทีรถะ—ทั้งสิ่งที่เป็นมาและสิ่งที่จะเป็นไป—เรากล่าวแก่ท่านแล้วทั้งหมด โดยจำแนกชัดเจนและครบถ้วน

Word by Word

• yat: whatever/that which
• yat: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yat (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक सर्वनाम (relative pronoun)

• bhūtam: the past (what has been)
• bhūtam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhūta (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √bhū भू)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन; भूतकृदन्त (past passive participle) अर्थे ‘भूतम्’ = ‘what has been/past’

• yat: whatever/that which
• yat: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yat (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक सर्वनाम

• bhaviṣyat: the future (what will be)
• bhaviṣyat: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhaviṣyat (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √bhū भू)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन; भविष्यत्कृदन्त (future active participle) अर्थे ‘भविष्यत्’ = ‘what will be/future’

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

• tīrtha-māhātmyam: the greatness/glory of the sacred ford (tīrtha)
• tīrtha-māhātmyam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tīrtha (प्रातिपदिक) + māhātmya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (tīrthasya māhātmyam)

• uttamam: excellent, supreme
• uttamam: Visheshana (Adjectival/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: uttama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन; विशेषणम् (qualifying tīrtha-māhātmyam)

• kathitam: has been told
• kathitam: Kriya (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √kath कथ् (धातु) → kathita (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन; कर्मणि प्रयोगे ‘(इदं) कथितम्’ = ‘has been told’

• te: to you
• te: Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: चतुर्थी (4), एकवचन; ‘तुभ्यम्/ते’ (enclitic)

• mayā: by me
• mayā: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तृतीया (3), एकवचन; ‘मया’ (instrumental)

• sarvam: all, entire
• sarvam: Visheshana (Adjectival/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन; विशेषणम् (refers to the whole account)

• pṛthag-bhāvena: separately, in detail (by way of division)
• pṛthag-bhāvena: Karana (Instrument/Means/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pṛthak (अव्यय/प्रातिपदिक) + bhāva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग (भावः), तृतीया (3), एकवचन; अव्ययीभावसमासः ‘पृथक्’ इति अव्ययपूर्वकः; अर्थे ‘विभागेन/पृथक्पृथक्’

• bhārata: O Bhārata
• bhārata: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhārata (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8), एकवचन; संबोधनपदम्

Speaker

Unspecified (deduced: narrator addressing 'Bhārata'—a descendant of Bharata, i.e., a Pāṇḍava-type addressee)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha (contextual, chapter-wide)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Mahārāja/ Bhārata (royal interlocutor; typically Yudhiṣṭhira in tīrtha-yātrā frames)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A sage-narrator concludes a long pilgrimage discourse to a royal listener; palm-leaf manuscript, riverbank hermitage ambience, sense of completion.

Characters & Entities

• Bhārata

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Tīrtha-māhātmya is presented as timeless—valid across past and future—inviting sustained faith and practice.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The Revā/Narmadā tīrtha whose māhātmya has been narrated across Adhyāya 142.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None directly; it serves as a concluding statement to the tīrtha’s praises and instructions already given.