Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 57

Devanagari script

ततश्चाराधयामास पुष्पधूपानुलेपनैः । स्नात्वा कुण्डेऽपिबत्तोयं त्रिःकृत्वा च यथापुरा

Transliteration

tataścārādhayāmāsa puṣpadhūpānulepanaiḥ | snātvā kuṇḍe'pibattoyaṃ triḥkṛtvā ca yathāpurā

Translation

แล้วเขาจึงบูชาพระผู้เป็นเจ้าด้วยดอกไม้ ธูป และเครื่องทาอันหอมกรุ่น ครั้นอาบน้ำในสระกุณฑะแล้ว ก็ดื่มน้ำนั้นสามครั้ง ตามจารีตโบราณดังเดิม

Word by Word

• ततः: thereafter
• ततः: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; तस्मात्/अनन्तरम् (thereafter)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चय (and)

• आराधयामास: worshipped/propitiated
• आराधयामास: Kriyā (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-राध् (धातु)
• Form: लिट्-लकार (परोक्शभूत/Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद; ‘आमास’ परसर्गयुक्त-लिट्-रूप

• पुष्पधूपानुलेपनैः: with flowers, incense, and unguents
• पुष्पधूपानुलेपनैः: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुष्प (प्रातिपदिक) + धूप (प्रातिपदिक) + अनुलेपन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (समाहार-द्वन्द्व), तृतीया-विभक्ति (करण), बहुवचन; द्वन्द्व-समास (पुष्पं च धूपः च अनुलेपनं च)

• स्नात्वा: having bathed
• स्नात्वा: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: स्ना (धातु) + क्त्वा (अव्यय-कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त्वान्त-अव्यय (absolutive), पूर्वकाले कृत्य (having bathed)

• कुण्डे: in the pond
• कुण्डे: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कुण्ड (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (अधिकरण), एकवचन

• अपिबत्: drank
• अपिबत्: Kriyā (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पा (धातु)
• Form: लङ्-लकार (अनद्यतनभूत/Imperfect), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद

• तोयम्: water
• तोयम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तोय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• त्रिःकृत्वा: having done (it) three times
• त्रिःकृत्वा: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: त्रिः (अव्यय) + कृ (धातु) + क्त्वा (अव्यय-कृदन्त)
• Form: अव्ययीभाव-समास; क्त्वान्त-अव्यय (having done thrice)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चय

• यथापुरा: as formerly
• यथापुरा: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा (अव्यय) + पुरा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्ययीभाव-समास; अव्यय (as before/just as earlier)

Speaker

Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) to the sages (deduced from Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya narrative style)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Śūlin-kuṇḍa (implied)

Type: kund

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: viprendra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee offers flowers, incense smoke curls upward, fragrant paste is applied; then he steps into the kuṇḍa, emerges, and sips the tīrtha-water three times with folded hands.

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Reverent worship combined with tīrtha-snān (sacred bathing) and ritual sipping of holy water purifies and aligns one with ancient dharmic practice.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

A sacred kuṇḍa associated with Kedāra-tīrtha within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Pūjā with flowers/incense/unguents, bathing in the kuṇḍa, and drinking the tīrtha-water three times (a customary ācamana-like act).