Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 17

Devanagari script

इति पञ्चवराहास्ते कथितः पाण्डुनन्दन । युगपद्दर्शनं चैषां ब्रह्महत्यां व्यपोहति

Transliteration

iti pañcavarāhāste kathitaḥ pāṇḍunandana | yugapaddarśanaṃ caiṣāṃ brahmahatyāṃ vyapohati

Translation

ดังนี้ โอรสแห่งปาณฑุ วราหะทั้งห้านี้ได้กล่าวแก่ท่านแล้ว การได้ดาร์ศนะพร้อมกันของท่านทั้งหลาย ย่อมขจัดแม้บาปพรหมหัตยา (ฆ่าพราหมณ์) ได้

Word by Word

• iti: thus
• iti: Sambandha (Discourse marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: iti (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; इत्यादि-समाप्तिसूचक (quotative/thus)

• pañca-varāhāḥ: the five Varāhas (boars)
• pañca-varāhāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pañca (संख्या/अव्यय) + varāha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा (1st/Nominative); बहुवचन; द्विगु-समास (five boars)

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

• kathitāḥ: have been described/told
• kathitāḥ: Karma (Predicate/कर्मणि-भाव)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √kath (कथ्) (धातु) → kathita (कृदन्त)
• Form: भूतकर्मणि कृदन्त (past passive participle); पुंलिङ्ग; प्रथमा; बहुवचन; विधेय-विशेषण (predicate)

• pāṇḍu-nandana: O son of Pāṇḍu
• pāṇḍu-nandana: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāṇḍu (प्रातिपदिक) + nandana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग; सम्बोधन (8th/Vocative); एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (Pāṇḍu's son)

• yugapat-darśanam: the simultaneous viewing
• yugapat-darśanam: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yugapat (अव्यय) + darśana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd); एकवचन; अव्ययीभाव-समास (simultaneous seeing)

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

• eṣām: of these
• eṣām: Sambandha (Genitive/षष्ठी-सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: idam (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग; षष्ठी (6th/Genitive); बहुवचन; सर्वनाम

• brahma-hatyām: Brahmin-slaying (sin)
• brahma-hatyām: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: brahman (प्रातिपदिक) + hatyā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative); एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (killing of a Brahmin)

• vyapohati: removes/dispels
• vyapohati: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vi + apa + √uh (ऊह्) (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present); परस्मैपद; प्रथमपुरुष (3rd); एकवचन

Speaker

Purāṇic narrator addressing Pāṇḍunandana (a Pāṇḍava listener, contextual)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Pañca-Varāha (Revā-tīra)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Pāṇḍunandana (a Pāṇḍava addressee)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A pilgrim (addressed as Pāṇḍunandana) hears the completed description of five Varāha manifestations; the five shrines appear as a sacred constellation, their combined darśana radiating a cleansing light that dissolves a dark ‘brahma-hatyā’ stain.

Characters & Entities

• Pañca-Varāha
• Pāṇḍunandana
• Brahmahatyā

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Pilgrimage and darśana, when rooted in sacred tradition, function as powerful prāyaścitta—purifying even grave transgressions.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The collective circuit of the five Varāha manifestations on the northern bank of the Narmadā is praised for extraordinary expiatory power.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Yugapad-darśana—seeing the five Varāhas in a single coordinated pilgrimage (as a unified observance).