Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 8

Devanagari script

चिक्रीड स विवस्त्राभिः साकं युवतिभिर्मुदा । हालास्यनाथतीर्थं तद्वसिष्ठो मुनिभिः सह

Transliteration

cikrīḍa sa vivastrābhiḥ sākaṃ yuvatibhirmudā | hālāsyanāthatīrthaṃ tadvasiṣṭho munibhiḥ saha

Translation

ณตีรถะของหาลาสยะนาถะนั้น เขาเล่นสนุกด้วยความรื่นรมย์กับหญิงสาวที่เปลือยกาย แล้ววสิษฐมุนีพร้อมด้วยเหล่าฤๅษีก็มาถึงที่นั่น

Word by Word

• चिक्रीड: played, sported
• चिक्रीड: Kriyā (Verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √क्रीड् (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (परिपूर्णभूत/Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद

• सः: he
• सः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• विवस्त्राभिः: with naked (women)
• विवस्त्राभिः: Sahakāraka/Instrument (सह/करण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विवस्त्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन; (yuvatibhiḥ understood)

• साकम्: together with
• साकम्: Saha (Association)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: साकम् (अव्यय)
• Form: सह-अर्थक-अव्यय (preposition-like adverb)

• युवतिभिः: with young women
• युवतिभिः: Saha/Instrument (सह/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: युवति (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन

• मुदा: with joy
• मुदा: Hetu/Instrument (manner/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मुद्/मुदा (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया, एकवचन

• हालास्य-नाथ-तीर्थम्: the sacred ford of Hālāsyanātha
• हालास्य-नाथ-तीर्थम्: Karman/Adhikaraṇa (Object/Place; context-dependent)
• Type: Noun
• Root: हालास्य (प्रातिपदिक) + नाथ (प्रातिपदिक) + तीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (हालास्यनाथस्य तीर्थम्)

• तत्: that
• तत्: Anaphoric (Reference)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; सर्वनाम (referring to tīrtha)

• वसिष्ठः: Vasiṣṭha
• वसिष्ठः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वसिष्ठ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• मुनिभिः: with sages
• मुनिभिः: Saha/Instrument (सह/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मुनि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन

• सह: with
• सह: Saha (Association)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सह (अव्यय)
• Form: सह-अर्थक-अव्यय (postposition)

Speaker

Sūta (continuing narration)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Hālāsya-nātha tīrtha

Type: kund

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Foreground: revelry in the water; background: Vasiṣṭha, serene and radiant, approaches with a group of sages carrying kamaṇḍalus and staffs; the atmosphere shifts from playful to tense.

Characters & Entities

• Hālāsya-nātha Tīrtha
• Vasiṣṭha
• Munis

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

A tīrtha is not merely a scenic place but a sanctified space; the arrival of sages signals that sacred geography carries moral and spiritual accountability.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Hālāsya-nātha-tīrtha, explicitly named as the sacred bathing place connected to Śiva as Hālāsya-nātha.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

The verse implies the tīrtha context (snāna and sanctity), though it does not directly prescribe a rite; it contrasts sacred space with irreverent behavior.