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Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 197

Devanagari script

इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां षष्ठे नागरखण्डे हाटकेश्वरक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये परावसुप्रायश्चित्तविधानवृत्तांतवर्णनंनाम सप्तनवत्युत्तरशततमोऽध्यायः

Transliteration

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye parāvasuprāyaścittavidhānavṛttāṃtavarṇanaṃnāma saptanavatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ดังนี้แล ในศรีสกันทมหาปุราณะ ภายในเอกาศีติ-สาหัสรีสังหิตา ในนาคารขันฑะที่หก ในมหาตมยะแห่งเขตศักดิ์สิทธิ์หาฏเกศวร บทชื่อว่า “พรรณนาวิธีปฤายัศจิตต์ของปราวสุ” อันเป็นบทที่ ๑๙๗ ก็สิ้นสุดลง

Word by Word
itithus
iti:
Sambandha (Discourse marker/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootiti (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; इति-शब्दः (quotative particle/‘thus’ marker)
śrīskāṃdein the Śrī Skanda (Purāṇa)
śrīskāṃde:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootśrī-skanda (प्रातिपदिक; श्री + स्कन्द)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/सप्तमी), एकवचन; अधिकरणे (locative: ‘in Śrī-Skanda [Purāṇa]’)
mahāpurāṇein the Mahāpurāṇa
mahāpurāṇe:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootmahā-purāṇa (प्रातिपदिक; महत् + पुराण)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; अधिकरणे
ekāśītisāhasryāmin the (collection) of eighty-one thousand (verses)
ekāśītisāhasryām:
Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootekāśīti-sāhasrī (प्रातिपदिक; एकाशीतिः + साहस्री)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; विशेषणम्—‘संहितायाम्’ इत्यस्य
saṃhitāyāmin the Saṃhitā
saṃhitāyām:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootsaṃhitā (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; अधिकरणे
ṣaṣṭhein the sixth
ṣaṣṭhe:
Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootṣaṣṭha (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; विशेषणम्—‘खण्डे’ इत्यस्य (in the sixth)
nāgarakhaṇḍein the Nāgara-khaṇḍa
nāgarakhaṇḍe:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootnagara-khaṇḍa (प्रातिपदिक; नगर + खण्ड)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; अधिकरणे
hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmyein the Māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara sacred field
hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Roothāṭaka-īśvara-kṣetra-māhātmya (प्रातिपदिक; हाटक + ईश्वर + क्षेत्र + माहात्म्य)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; अधिकरणे
parāvasuprāyaścittavidhānavṛttāntavarṇanamthe narration of the procedure of Parāvasu’s expiation and its account
parāvasuprāyaścittavidhānavṛttāntavarṇanam:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootparāvasu-prāyaścitta-vidhāna-vṛttānta-varṇana (प्रातिपदिक; परावसु + प्रायश्चित्त + विधान + वृत्तान्त + वर्णन)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन; अध्याय-नामरूपेण (as title)
nāmanamed
nāma:
Sambandha (Naming marker/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootnāma (अव्यय/निपात)
Formअव्यय; नाम-शब्दः (particle meaning ‘named/called’)
saptanavatyuttaraśatatamaḥthe one hundred and ninety-seventh
saptanavatyuttaraśatatamaḥ:
Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootsapta-navati-uttara-śata-tama (प्रातिपदिक; सप्त + नवति + उत्तर + शत + तम)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; विशेषणम्—‘अध्यायः’ इत्यस्य (ordinal)
adhyāyaḥchapter
adhyāyaḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootadhyāya (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन
Speaker

Colophon (scribal/editorial closure formula)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Ṛṣis at Naimiṣāraṇya (standard Sūta-śaunaka frame; not explicit in this colophon line)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Colophon-like closing tableau: sages in a forest āśrama, palm-leaf manuscripts, a calm ritual setting indicating completion of a prāyaścitta narrative tied to Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra.

Characters & Entities
S
Skanda Mahāpurāṇa
E
Ekāśīti-sāhasrī Saṃhitā
N
Nāgara-khaṇḍa
H
Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra
P
Parāvasu

FAQs

As a colophon, it primarily preserves textual identity—chapter scope, sacred site focus, and the dharmic theme of expiation.

Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra is explicitly named as the māhātmya focus.

The chapter topic is the procedure (vidhāna) of Parāvasu’s prāyaścitta (expiation), though the colophon itself does not detail steps.

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