Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 130

Devanagari script

अगस्त्य उवाच । इत्थं सधर्मिणि कथां शुक्रलोकस्य सुव्रते । शृण्वन्नांगारकं लोकमालुलोकेऽथ स द्विजः

Transliteration

agastya uvāca | itthaṃ sadharmiṇi kathāṃ śukralokasya suvrate | śṛṇvannāṃgārakaṃ lokamāluloke'tha sa dvijaḥ

Translation

อคัสตยะกล่าวว่า: ดังนี้แล โอผู้มีวัตรอันประเสริฐ ขณะฟังเรื่องราวอันสอดคล้องธรรมแห่งโลกของศุกระ พราหมณ์ผู้นั้นก็ได้แลเห็นโลกของอังคารกะ (มังคละ/ดาวอังคาร)

Word by Word

• agastyaḥ: Agastya
• agastyaḥ: Karta (Speaker/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: agastya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular)

• uvāca: said
• uvāca: Kriya (Main verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vac (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (Singular), परस्मैपद

• ittham: thus, in this manner
• ittham: Kriya-visheṣaṇa (Adverb)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ittham (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, प्रकारवाचक (adverb of manner)

• sa-dharmiṇi: in/with one of similar nature (O virtuous one)
• sa-dharmiṇi: Adhikaraṇa (Context/Location)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sa (अव्यय/उपसर्गार्थ) + dharmin (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन (Singular); ‘सधर्मिणि’ = समानधर्मयुक्ते (in one of like nature)

• kathām: the story
• kathām: Karma (Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kathā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन (Singular)

• śukralokasya: of Śukra’s world
• śukralokasya: Sambandha (Genitive)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śukra + loka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन (Singular)

• suvrate: O virtuous one
• suvrate: Sambodhana (Address)
• Type: Noun
• Root: su + vrata (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन (Singular); ‘सुव्रत’ = good-vowed/virtuous

• śṛṇvan: listening
• śṛṇvan: Karta (Qualifier of subject)
• Type: Verb
• Root: śru (धातु)
• Form: शतृ (Present active participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular)

• aṅgārakam: Aṅgāraka (Mars)
• aṅgārakam: Karma (Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: aṅgāraka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन (Singular)

• lokam: the world
• lokam: Karma (Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: loka (प्रातिपदik)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन (Singular)

• āluloke: he looked at / beheld
• āluloke: Kriya (Main verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: ā-lok (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (Singular), परस्मैपद; ‘he beheld’

• atha: then
• atha: Discourse connector
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: atha (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, अनुक्रम/आरम्भसूचक (then/now)

• saḥ: he
• saḥ: Karta (Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular)

• dvijaḥ: the twice-born (brahmin)
• dvijaḥ: Karta (Appositive)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dvija (प्रातिपदik)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular)

Speaker

Agastya

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Aṅgāraka-loka

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Suvratā / ‘sadharmiṇī’ addressed in the verse (as translated: ‘O virtuous one’)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Agastya narrates; a brāhmaṇa, absorbed in the tale of Śukra-loka, experiences a visionary shift and beholds the red-tinged realm of Aṅgāraka—martial hues, iron-red landscapes, a distant glowing planet-sphere.

Characters & Entities

• Agastya
• Śukra
• Aṅgāraka (Maṅgala/Mars)
• Dvija (brāhmaṇa)
• Suvratā (addressee)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Purāṇic listening (śravaṇa) is presented as transformative—revealing higher cosmic realities and the moral order behind them.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

While the line is cosmological, it remains part of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa narrative stream that ultimately serves Kāśī’s māhātmya context.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Śravaṇa (devotional listening) is implied as the practice—hearing sacred accounts as a dharmic discipline.