Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 40

Devanagari script

काममोहभयक्रोधलोभरोगादिनाशने । विना वेदांतविज्ञानं सद्योनिर्वाणकारणे

Transliteration

kāmamohabhayakrodhalobharogādināśane | vinā vedāṃtavijñānaṃ sadyonirvāṇakāraṇe

Translation

มันทำลายกามะ ความหลง ความกลัว ความโกรธ ความโลภ โรคภัย และสิ่งทั้งปวง; และแม้ปราศจากความรู้เวทานตะโดยพิธีการ ก็เป็นเหตุแห่งนิรวาณโดยฉับพลัน

Word by Word

• काममोहभयक्रोधलोभरोगादिनाशने: in (that which is) the destroyer of desire, delusion, fear, anger, greed, disease, etc.
• काममोहभयक्रोधलोभरोगादिनाशने: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: काम-मोह-भय-क्रोध-लोभ-रोग-आदि-नाशन (प्रातिपदिक; बहुपद-समास)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7/अधिकरण), एकवचन — locative ‘in/with regard to the destroyer of…’

• विना: without
• विना: Sambandha (Exclusion marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: विना (अव्यय)
• Form: उपपद-अव्यय — preposition ‘without’ (governs accusative)

• वेदांतविज्ञानम्: knowledge of Vedānta
• वेदांतविज्ञानम्: Karma (Object of ‘विना’/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वेदान्त-विज्ञान (प्रातिपदिक; वेदान्त + विज्ञान)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2/कर्म), एकवचन — accusative with ‘विना’

• सद्योनिर्वाणकारणे: in (that which is) the cause of immediate nirvāṇa
• सद्योनिर्वाणकारणे: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सद्यः-निर्वाण-कारण (प्रातिपदिक; सद्यः + निर्वाण + कारण)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7/अधिकरण), एकवचन — locative ‘in the cause of immediate nirvāṇa’

Speaker

Śiva (Mahādeva/Śambhu)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Mānasa Tīrtha

Type: kund

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Sucarita

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A symbolic inner landscape: the pilgrim at the tīrtha while personified kāma, krodha, lobha, bhaya fade away; healing light spreads, suggesting nirvāṇa’s calm even without scholastic paraphernalia.

Characters & Entities

• Śiva
• Nirvāṇa
• Vedānta

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Grace attached to a holy place can lift a seeker beyond inner afflictions; liberation is not restricted to scholars when devotion and tīrtha-sevā are present.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The same Mānasa/Sarvatīrtha of Setukhaṇḍa, praised for inner purification and liberation.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

The implied practice is continued tīrtha-snāna and remembrance, presented as efficacious even without advanced philosophical study.