Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 130

Devanagari script

अपराधसहस्रं तु नश्येत्तस्य समर्चनात्

Transliteration

aparādhasahasraṃ tu naśyettasya samarcanāt

Translation

ด้วยการบูชาสักการะ (เทพ/สถานศักดิ์สิทธิ์) นั้นอย่างถูกต้องตามพิธี ย่อมทำให้ความผิดนับพันสิ้นสลายไปโดยแท้

Word by Word

• aparādhasahasram: a thousand offenses
• aparādhasahasram: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: aparādha (प्रातिपदिक) + sahasra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष: ‘अपराधानां सहस्रम्’); नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1/2), एकवचन (neuter nom/acc sg)

• tu: indeed; but
• tu: Sambandha (Discourse particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; विरोध/अन्वयबोधक (particle: but/indeed)

• naśyet: would perish; would be destroyed
• naśyet: Kriyā (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: naś (√नश्, धातु)
• Form: लोट्/विधिलिङ् (optative), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद (may perish/be destroyed)

• tasya: of that; of him/it
• tasya: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसक, षष्ठी (6), एकवचन (genitive singular)

• samarcanāt: from proper worship
• samarcanāt: Hetu (Cause/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sam + arc (√अर्च्, धातु) + ana (प्रत्यय)
• Form: कृदन्त-भाववाचक (ल्युट्/अन-प्रत्ययान्त ‘अर्चन’); नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5), एकवचन (ablative singular: ‘from/by’)

Speaker

Skanda

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: (Contextual) shrine under discussion in Kāśīkhaṇḍa 47

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Pilgrim-seeker interlocutor

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee offers flowers, bilva leaves, incense, and lamp to a Śiva-liṅga; a subtle visual motif of dark knots (offences) dissolving into light as worship is completed.

Characters & Entities

• (unspecified) liṅga/deity of the immediately preceding context
• Kāśī (Vārāṇasī)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Sincere worship in a sanctified Śaiva context is upheld as a powerful means of purification and moral restoration.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse refers to the shrine/deity under discussion in Adhyāya 47; within the Kāśī-sthala framework, it applies to the immediately described liṅga/tīrtha.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Samarcana—proper worship/adoration (offerings, reverence, and ritual attention).