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Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 173

Devanagari script

ततो निशामुखे प्राप्ते कौपीनावरणान्वितः । नष्टोऽभीष्टां दिशं प्राप्य तदा जीवितजाद्भयात्

Transliteration

tato niśāmukhe prāpte kaupīnāvaraṇānvitaḥ | naṣṭo'bhīṣṭāṃ diśaṃ prāpya tadā jīvitajādbhayāt

Translation

ครั้นเมื่อยามสนธยาราตรีมาถึง เขาสวมเพียงผ้าคาวปีนะ แล้วลอบหนีไป และด้วยความหวาดกลัวต่อชีวิต จึงไปถึงทิศที่ตนปรารถนา

Word by Word
tataḥthen
tataḥ:
Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Roottataḥ (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; क्रमवाचक (then/thereupon)
niśā-mukheat nightfall
niśā-mukhe:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootniśā (प्रातिपदिक) + mukha (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/सप्तमी), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः — ‘at the beginning of night’
prāptewhen (it) had come/arrived
prāpte:
Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeAdjective
Rootpra-āp (धातु) → prāpta (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/सप्तमी), एकवचन; भूतकर्मणि कृदन्त; सप्तमी-absolute (locative absolute) सह niśāmukhe
kaupīna-āvaraṇa-anvitaḥwearing a loincloth covering
kaupīna-āvaraṇa-anvitaḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeAdjective
Rootkaupīna (प्रातिपदिक) + āvaraṇa (प्रातिपदिक) + anvita (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष-समासः (kaupīna-āvaraṇena anvitaḥ) — ‘endowed with a loincloth covering’; anvita = भूतकर्मणि कृदन्त
naṣṭaḥhaving fled/gone away
naṣṭaḥ:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeAdjective
Rootnaś (धातु) → naṣṭa (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन; भूतकर्मणि कृदन्त — ‘lost/gone’
abhīṣṭāmdesired
abhīṣṭām:
Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootabhīṣṭa (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन; विशेषण diśam प्रति
diśamdirection
diśam:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootdiś (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन
prāpyahaving reached
prāpya:
Purvakala (Prior action/पूर्वकाल)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootpra-āp (धातु)
Formक्त्वान्त अव्यय (gerund/absolutive) — ‘having reached’
tadāthen
tadā:
Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Roottadā (अव्यय)
Formकालवाचक अव्यय (temporal adverb)
jīvita-jātfrom (the desire for) life
jīvita-jāt:
Hetu (Cause/हेतु)
TypeAdjective
Rootjīvita (प्रातिपदिक) + jāta (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/पञ्चमी), एकवचन; तत्पुरुषः — ‘arisen from life (i.e., from desire to live)’; पञ्चमी-हेतौ (ablative of cause)
bhayātout of fear
bhayāt:
Hetu (Cause/हेतु)
TypeNoun
Rootbhaya (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/पञ्चमी), एकवचन; हेतौ पञ्चमी
Speaker

Narrator

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Night escape scene: a man in only a kaupīna slips past sleeping quarters, moonlight on temple spires, shadows of trees, a narrow lane leading out of the sacred town; his posture is hunched, eyes scanning for pursuers.

Characters & Entities
N
niśā
K
kaupīna

FAQs

When conscience and society close in, fear follows; Purāṇic narratives depict how adharma destabilizes life and security.

No tīrtha is named in this verse; it is narrative connective tissue within a Tīrthamāhātmya account.

None.

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