Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 36

Devanagari script

तस्य स्यात्त्वत्प्रसादेन संसिद्धिः सार्वकामिकी । सर्वोपद्रवनाशश्च तेजोवृद्धिश्च शंकर

Transliteration

tasya syāttvatprasādena saṃsiddhiḥ sārvakāmikī | sarvopadravanāśaśca tejovṛddhiśca śaṃkara

Translation

โอ้พระศังกร ด้วยพระกรุณาของพระองค์ เขาย่อมบรรลุความสำเร็จสมบูรณ์แห่งความปรารถนาทั้งปวง; ภัยพิบัติทั้งหลายดับสูญ และเดชะรัศมีทางธรรมของเขายิ่งเพิ่มพูน

Word by Word

• tasya: of him
• tasya: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गे, षष्ठी (6th/षष्ठी), एकवचन

• syāt: may be, will be
• syāt: Kriyā (Main verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: as (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative/विधिलिङ्), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन

• tvat-prasādena: by your grace
• tvat-prasādena: Karaṇa (Instrument/cause/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvat (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) + prasāda (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः; पुंलिङ्गे, तृतीया (3rd/तृतीया), एकवचन

• saṃsiddhiḥ: complete success, attainment
• saṃsiddhiḥ: Karta (Subject complement/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃsiddhi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्गे, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन

• sārvakāmikī: fulfilling all desires
• sārvakāmikī: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sārvakāmikī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्गे, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन; विशेषण (agreeing with saṃsiddhiḥ)

• sarvopadravanāśaḥ: destruction of all calamities
• sarvopadravanāśaḥ: Karta (Co-subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक) + upadrava (प्रातिपदिक) + nāśa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुषसमासः (उपद्रवस्य नाशः; सर्वेषाम् उपद्रवानाम्); पुंलिङ्गे, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (Connector/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)

• tejo-vṛddhiḥ: increase of splendor/energy
• tejo-vṛddhiḥ: Karta (Co-subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tejas (प्रातिपदिक) + vṛddhi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (तेजसः वृद्धिः); स्त्रीलिङ्गे, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (Connector/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)

• śaṃkara: O Śaṅkara
• śaṃkara: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śaṃkara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गे, सम्बोधन (8th/सम्बोधन), एकवचन

Speaker

Mahiṣa (addressing Śiva)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Same as preceding verse (unnamed here; ‘māmaka-tīrtha’)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Śaṅkara’s benign presence bestows boons: a devotee stands radiant, calamities symbolically dissolving (dark clouds dispersing), aura of tejas rising.

Characters & Entities

• Śiva (Śaṅkara)
• Tīrtha (unnamed)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Tīrtha-practice becomes fruitful through divine grace; inner and outer obstacles are removed and spiritual vigor (tejas) grows.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The tīrtha is praised generally in the excerpt; the proper name is not present in the provided verses.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Implied continuation of the prior verse: tīrtha-snānā with faith, leading to grace-bestowed results.