Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 35

Devanagari script

यत्र तत्पुत्रदं तीर्थं वसिष्ठेन विनिर्मितम् । तत्र स्नात्वा सकृत्संगं समासाद्य द्विजोद्भवम्

Transliteration

yatra tatputradaṃ tīrthaṃ vasiṣṭhena vinirmitam | tatra snātvā sakṛtsaṃgaṃ samāsādya dvijodbhavam

Translation

ยังสถานที่ซึ่งฤๅษีวสิษฐะได้สร้างตีรถะผู้ประทานบุตรไว้ ครั้นอาบน้ำ ณ ที่นั้นแล้ว และได้สมาคมเพียงครั้งหนึ่งกับบุรุษทวิชะ—

Word by Word

• यत्र: where
• यत्र: Adhikaraṇa (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक-अव्यय (relative adverb: where)

• तत्: that
• तत्: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjective/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेषण (पुत्रदम्)

• पुत्रदम्: granting a son
• पुत्रदम्: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjective/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पुत्र (प्रातिपदिक) + द (दा-धातु से निष्पन्न प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (पुत्रं ददाति इति), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेषण (तीर्थम्)

• तीर्थम्: sacred ford/pilgrimage place
• तीर्थम्: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• वसिष्ठेन: by Vasiṣṭha
• वसिष्ठेन: Karana (Instrument/Agent-in-passive/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वसिष्ठ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental/3rd), एकवचन

• विनिर्मितम्: constructed; made
• विनिर्मितम्: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjective/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वि-निर्-मा (धातु) + क्त (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त (PPP), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेषण (तीर्थम्)

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikaraṇa (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक-अव्यय (adverb: there)

• स्नात्वा: having bathed
• स्नात्वा: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial modifier/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: स्ना (धातु) + त्वा (क्त्वा-प्रत्यय)
• Form: क्त्वान्त-अव्यय (absolutive/gerund)

• सकृत्: once
• सकृत्: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial modifier/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सकृत् (अव्यय)
• Form: संख्यावाचक/परिमाणवाचक-अव्यय (adverb: once)

• संगम्: meeting; association
• संगम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: संग (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• समासाद्य: having approached/attained
• समासाद्य: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial modifier/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सम्-आ-सद् (धातु) + ल्यप् (कृदन्त)
• Form: ल्यपन्त-अव्यय (gerund), पूर्वकालिक-क्रिया

• द्विजोद्भवम्: one born from a Brahmin; Brahmin-born (person)
• द्विजोद्भवम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्विज (प्रातिपदिक) + उद्भव (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (द्विजात् उद्भवः), पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

Speaker

Deductive: Purāṇic narrator in Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya (likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Putrada Tīrtha (Vasiṣṭha-kṛta)

Type: kund/ghat (contextual)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A sacred waterbody with steps; Vasiṣṭha shown as the founding sage (staff, matted hair), indicating consecration. Devotees bathe, then receive blessings; the scene subtly indicates the ‘putrada’ boon through imagery of cradles/infant symbols or auspicious mango leaves.

Characters & Entities

• Vasiṣṭha
• putrada tīrtha
• dvija (twice-born)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

The tīrtha’s sanctity, established by a great ṛṣi, is portrayed as transforming family destiny when approached with rite and dharmic intent.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The putrada tīrtha/kuṇḍa established by Vasiṣṭha (Suputradā/Putradā).

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Bathing at the tīrtha is explicit; the verse also continues a narrative motif of conception leading to progeny (completed in the next verse).