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Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 79

Devanagari script

चतुःष्कोटि द्विलक्षं च सहस्रं शतमेव च । धेनवस्तेन दत्ताः स्युर्माहात्म्यं शृणु यात्तु यः

Transliteration

catuḥṣkoṭi dvilakṣaṃ ca sahasraṃ śatameva ca | dhenavastena dattāḥ syurmāhātmyaṃ śṛṇu yāttu yaḥ

Translation

ผู้ใดสดับมหาตมยะนี้ ย่อมถูกนับเสมือนว่าได้ถวายทานโคทั้งหลาย คือ สี่โกฏิ สองแสน หนึ่งพัน และหนึ่งร้อยตัว.

Word by Word
चतुःष्कोटिfour crores
चतुःष्कोटि:
Visheshana (Quantifier)
TypeNoun
Rootचतुः-कोटि (प्रातिपदिक; चतस्रः कोटयः)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन (संख्यावाचक-समास); here as numeral count
द्विलक्षम्two lakhs
द्विलक्षम्:
Visheshana (Quantifier)
TypeNoun
Rootद्वि-लक्ष (प्रातिपदिक; द्वे लक्षे)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; numeral count
चand
च:
Sambandha (Connector)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formसमुच्चयार्थक-निपात
सहस्रम्a thousand
सहस्रम्:
Visheshana (Quantifier)
TypeNoun
Rootसहस्र (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; numeral count
शतम्a hundred
शतम्:
Visheshana (Quantifier)
TypeNoun
Rootशत (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; numeral count
एवjust/indeed
एव:
Sambandha (Emphasis)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव (अव्यय)
Formअवधारणार्थक-निपात
चand
च:
Sambandha (Connector)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formसमुच्चयार्थक-निपात
धेनवःcows
धेनवः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootधेनु (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; Nominative plural
तेनby that
तेन:
Karana (Means/करण)
TypeNoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुं/नपुंसक, तृतीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; Instrumental singular ‘by that (act/person)’
दत्ताः(are) given
दत्ताः:
Kriya (Predicative/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootदत्त (कृदन्त; दा धातु + क्त)
Formभूतकर्मणि-प्रत्ययान्त (PPP) used predicatively; स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; ‘given’
स्युःwould be
स्युः:
Kriya (Copula/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootअस् (धातु)
Formविधिलिङ् (Optative), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष, बहुवचन; ‘would be/should be’
माहात्म्यम्the greatness (glory)
माहात्म्यम्:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootमाहात्म्य (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; Accusative singular
शृणुlisten
शृणु:
Kriya (Command/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootश्रु (धातु)
Formलोट् (Imperative), परस्मैपद, मध्यमपुरुष, एकवचन; ‘hear!’
यात्may attain/go
यात्:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootया (धातु)
Formविधिलिङ् (Optative), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; ‘may go/attain’
तुindeed
तु:
Sambandha (Particle)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतु (अव्यय)
Formनिपात; ‘indeed/but’
यःwho
यः:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; relative pronoun ‘who’
Speaker

Sūta (contextual continuity)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Lohāsura/Lohayaṣṭī māhātmya (listening)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Viprāḥ/ṛṣis

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A visionary procession of countless cows being gifted, dissolving into the sound-waves of recitation—showing that listening itself is counted as immense go-dāna.

Characters & Entities
M
Māhātmya-śravaṇa
D
Dhenū-dāna (cow donation)
P
Phalaśruti

FAQs

Purāṇic listening, when done with faith, is praised as a high form of dharma comparable to vast acts of charity.

The Dharmāraṇya tīrtha complex whose māhātmya is being heard (centered on Lohayaṣṭī traditions).

Śravaṇa of the māhātmya is prescribed and extolled as yielding the merit of enormous dhenū-dāna.

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