Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 33

Devanagari script

मदीयो भूपते देह ईदृगासीद्यथा तव । तत्र स्नातस्य सद्योऽथ जात ईदृक्पुनः प्रभो

Transliteration

madīyo bhūpate deha īdṛgāsīdyathā tava | tatra snātasya sadyo'tha jāta īdṛkpunaḥ prabho

Translation

ข้าแต่พระราชา กายของข้าก็เคยเป็นดุจเดียวกับของพระองค์มาก่อน แต่เมื่อได้อาบน้ำชำระ ณ ที่นั้นแล้ว ข้าแต่พระผู้เป็นเจ้า ข้าก็กลับคืนสู่สภาพนี้โดยพลันทันที

Word by Word

• मदीयः: my (mine)
• मदीयः: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मदीय (प्रातिपदिक; मद्-सम्बन्धी)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st case), एकवचन; विशेषणम् (masculine nominative singular; adjective)

• भूपते: O king
• भूपते: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भूपति (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th case), एकवचन (masculine vocative singular)

• देहः: body
• देहः: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: देह (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st case), एकवचन (masculine nominative singular)

• ईदृक्: such, like this
• ईदृक्: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ईदृश्/ईदृक् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; विशेषणम् (masculine nominative singular; adjective)

• आसीत्: was
• आसीत्: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: अस् (धातु)
• Form: लङ् (imperfect/past), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपदम् (3rd person singular, past)

• यथा: as, just as
• यथा: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; उपमान/तुलना-वाचक (indeclinable; comparative)

• तव: of you, your
• तव: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th case), एकवचन; सर्वनाम (genitive singular pronoun)

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikarana (अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; देशवाचक क्रियाविशेषण (indeclinable; locative adverb)

• स्नातस्य: of (one) who has bathed
• स्नातस्य: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स्नात (कृदन्त; स्ना-धातोः क्त)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th case), एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त भूतकर्मणि/भूतकृत् (past participle; genitive singular)

• सद्यः: immediately
• सद्यः: Kriya-vishesana (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सद्यः (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; कालवाचक क्रियाविशेषण (indeclinable; temporal adverb)

• अथ: then
• अथ: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अथ (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; अनन्तरार्थक/समुच्चय (indeclinable; then/and)

• जातः: became, was born/produced
• जातः: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: जात (कृदन्त; जन्-धातोः क्त)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past participle; nominative singular)

• ईदृक्: such (like this)
• ईदृक्: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ईदृश्/ईदृक् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; विशेषणम् (masculine nominative singular; adjective)

• पुनः: again
• पुनः: Kriya-vishesana (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुनः (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; पुनरावृत्तिवाचक (indeclinable; again)

• प्रभो: O lord
• प्रभो: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रभु (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन, एकवचन (masculine vocative singular)

Speaker

Kārpaṭika

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Nāgara-kṣetra tīrtha (specific snāna-sthāna unnamed here)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: King (Rājā)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A formerly afflicted ascetic-like figure (Kārpaṭika) stands by a sacred waterbody, narrating to a king; his body appears renewed after bathing, with a subtle aura of purity.

Characters & Entities

• kārpaṭika
• bhūpati (king)
• tīrtha-snānā (bathing at the tīrtha)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Faith supported by lived testimony turns the mind from hopelessness to dharmic action; tīrtha-snānā is upheld as transformative grace.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The same curative tīrtha referenced earlier (“sarvavyādhi-kṣayāvaha”) is glorified through the speaker’s personal healing account.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Snāna (ritual bathing) at the tīrtha is explicitly prescribed and presented as immediately efficacious.