Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 94

Devanagari script

रामराम महाभाग जानकीरमण प्रभो । सौमित्रे जानकि शुभे हे सुग्रीव मुखास्तथा

Transliteration

rāmarāma mahābhāga jānakīramaṇa prabho | saumitre jānaki śubhe he sugrīva mukhāstathā

Translation

พระราม พระราม—ข้าแต่พระผู้เป็นเจ้าอันประเสริฐผู้มีบุญยิ่ง ผู้เป็นที่รักของพระนางชานกี! โอ้เสามิตรี (พระลักษมณ์)! โอ้พระนางชานกีผู้เป็นมงคล! และท่านสุครีพ ผู้เลิศในวาจา—จงสดับเถิด!

Word by Word

• राम: O Rāma
• राम: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: राम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8/सम्बोधन), एकवचन

• राम: O Rāma (again)
• राम: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: राम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8/सम्बोधन), एकवचन (पुनरुक्ति/आह्वान-बलार्थ)

• महाभाग: O greatly fortunate one
• महाभाग: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महाभाग (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8), एकवचन; विशेषण (रामस्य)

• जानकीरमण: O beloved of Jānakī
• जानकीरमण: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: जानकी-रमण (प्रातिपदिक; जानकी + रमण)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (जानक्याः रमणः)

• प्रभो: O lord
• प्रभो: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रभु (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8), एकवचन

• सौमित्रे: O Saumitrī (Lakṣmaṇa)
• सौमित्रे: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सौमित्रि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8), एकवचन

• जानकि: O Jānakī
• जानकि: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: जानकी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8), एकवचन (वैकल्पिक रूप: जानकि)

• शुभे: O auspicious one
• शुभे: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शुभ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8), एकवचन; विशेषण (जानक्याः)

• हे: O (vocative particle)
• हे: Sambodhana marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हे (अव्यय)
• Form: सम्बोधन-निपात (vocative particle)

• सुग्रीव: O Sugrīva
• सुग्रीव: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुग्रीव (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8), एकवचन

• मुखाः: faces / leaders / foremost ones
• मुखाः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता) (elliptic address)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मुख (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1), बहुवचन; (सम्बोधनार्थे अपि प्रथमा-बहुवचन-प्रयोगः)

• तथा: thus; also
• तथा: Modifier (Avyaya)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; प्रकार/समुच्चयार्थक (adverb: 'thus/also')

Speaker

Rāmanātha (Śiva) (deduced from immediate context of phalaśruti and ‘Rāmanātho’ in the following verse)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Rāmasetu / Setubandha

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A sacred assembly at Setu: the speaker calls out to Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa, Sītā, and Sugrīva, inviting them to hear a hymn; oceanic horizon and the line of the Setu implied.

Characters & Entities

• Rāma
• Jānakī (Sītā)
• Lakṣmaṇa (Saumitrī)
• Sugrīva

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Devotion begins with reverent invocation—calling upon Rāma and his companions as sacred witnesses to the hymn’s merit.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Rāmasetu/Rāmeśvaram (Setukhaṇḍa context), associated with Rāmanātha (Śiva).

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No direct ritual is prescribed here; it functions as an invocation introducing the hymn and its ensuing merit.