Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 3

Devanagari script

अस्ति पापहरं पुंसां सर्वाभीष्टप्रदायकम् । यत्र स्नात्वा नरो भक्त्या सर्वान्कामानवाप्नुयात्

Transliteration

asti pāpaharaṃ puṃsāṃ sarvābhīṣṭapradāyakam | yatra snātvā naro bhaktyā sarvānkāmānavāpnuyāt

Translation

มีทีรถะอันศักดิ์สิทธิ์ที่ขจัดบาปของมนุษย์และประทานสิ่งอันพึงปรารถนาทั้งปวง ผู้ใดอาบน้ำที่นั่นด้วยภักติ ย่อมบรรลุความมุ่งหมายทั้งสิ้นตามปรารถนา

Word by Word

• अस्ति: there is / exists
• अस्ति: Kriya (Verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: अस् (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present indicative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (Singular)

• पापहरम्: sin-removing
• पापहरम्: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पाप-हर (प्रातिपदिक; पाप + हर)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा/द्वितीया (Nom./Acc.), एकवचन (Singular); विशेषण (adjectival)

• पुंसाम्: of men
• पुंसाम्: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुंस्/पुम्स् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), षष्ठी (Genitive), बहुवचन (Plural)

• सर्वाभीष्टप्रदायकम्: giver of all desired things
• सर्वाभीष्टप्रदायकम्: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व-अभीष्ट-प्रदायक (प्रातिपदिक; सर्व + अभीष्ट + प्रदायक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा/द्वितीया (Nom./Acc.), एकवचन (Singular); विशेषण (adjectival)

• यत्र: where
• यत्र: Adhikarana (Locative sense/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; स्थानवाचक-सम्बन्धबोधक (relative adverb of place: 'where')

• स्नात्वा: having bathed
• स्नात्वा: Kriya (Non-finite verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्ना (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (Gerund/Absolutive), अव्ययभाव (indeclinable verbal), पूर्वकालिक क्रिया (prior action)

• नरः: a man
• नरः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), प्रथमा (Nominative), एकवचन (Singular)

• भक्त्या: with devotion
• भक्त्या: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भक्ति (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग (Feminine), तृतीया (Instrumental), एकवचन (Singular)

• सर्वान्: all
• सर्वान्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), द्वितीया (Accusative), बहुवचन (Plural); विशेषण

• कामान्: desires
• कामान्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: काम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), द्वितीया (Accusative), बहुवचन (Plural)

• अवाप्नुयात्: may obtain
• अवाप्नुयात्: Kriya (Verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: अव-आप् (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (Singular), परस्मैपद

Speaker

Deductive: a Purāṇic narrator within Setukhaṇḍa (likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa addressing sages)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Sādhyāmṛta

Type: tirtha

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A pilgrim couple and ascetics at a luminous coastal tīrtha; the sea-horizon and a small shrine; the devotee enters the water with folded hands as divine light rises from the waves.

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Devotional bathing at a praised tīrtha is presented as a direct means for sin-removal and fulfilment of righteous desires.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse introduces the sin-destroying tīrtha later identified in this passage as Sādhyāmṛta-jala/tīrtha within the Setukhaṇḍa (Setu Māhātmya).

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Snāna (ritual bathing) performed with bhakti (devotion).