Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 69

Devanagari script

जीवरूपेण लोकांस्त्रीन्व्याप्य तिष्ठसि नित्यदा । एवं स संस्तुतो नीलो विप्रैस्तैः सोमपायिभिः

Transliteration

jīvarūpeṇa lokāṃstrīnvyāpya tiṣṭhasi nityadā | evaṃ sa saṃstuto nīlo vipraistaiḥ somapāyibhiḥ

Translation

พระองค์ดำรงอยู่เนืองนิตย์ โดยแผ่ซ่านไปในสามโลกในรูปแห่งชีวาตมัน. ดังนี้เอง นีละ (นีลรูปะ) ได้รับการสรรเสริญจากพราหมณ์ผู้ดื่มโสมในพิธียัญญะ.

Word by Word

• जीवरूपेण: in the form of a living being
• जीवरूपेण: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: जीव-रूप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (करण), एकवचन; समासः—षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (जीवस्य रूपम्)

• लोकान्: worlds
• लोकान्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: लोक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (कर्म), बहुवचन

• त्रीन्: three
• त्रीन्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: त्रि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (कर्म), बहुवचन; विशेषणम् (लोकान्)

• व्याप्य: having pervaded
• व्याप्य: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Verb
• Root: व्याप् (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (अव्ययकृदन्त), पूर्वकाल; ‘व्याप्य’ = having pervaded

• तिष्ठसि: you stand/abide
• तिष्ठसि: Kriyā (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्था (धातु)
• Form: लट् (वर्तमान), मध्यमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• नित्यदा: always
• नित्यदा: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (Time/कालाधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नित्यदा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; कालवाचक क्रियाविशेषण (always)

• एवम्: thus
• एवम्: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम् (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; प्रकारवाचक (thus)

• सः: he
• सः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• संस्तुतः: praised
• संस्तुतः: Karta (Subject complement/कर्तृसम्बन्ध)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-स्तु (धातु)
• Form: कृदन्त—क्त (भूतकर्मणि/भूतकालिक), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; ‘praised’

• नीलः: Nīla (the blue one)
• नीलः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नील (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; विशेष्य (सः)

• विप्रैः: by the Brahmins
• विप्रैः: Karaṇa (Agent-instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: विप्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (करण), बहुवचन

• तैः: by those
• तैः: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन; विशेषणम् (विप्रैः)

• सोमपायिभिः: by Soma-drinkers
• सोमपायिभिः: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सोम-पायिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन; समासः—षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (सोमस्य पायी)

Speaker

Narrator (Purāṇic voice) concluding the stuti segment

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Nīla (Nīlarūpa)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Soma-sacrificing brāhmaṇas with ladles and soma cups praise a blue Nīla form; behind him, faint three-world imagery (heaven, earth, nether) indicates pervasion as jīva.

Characters & Entities

• Nīla/Nīlarūpa (Śiva)
• Vipras (Brāhmaṇas)
• Soma (sacrificial Soma)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

The Lord is present as the inner life in all realms; Vedic and Purāṇic devotion converge in praising the same Supreme.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The tīrtha of this adhyāya is framed as a place where Vedic brāhmaṇas praise Nīlarūpa, indicating a sanctified sacrificial and pilgrimage landscape.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Indirect reference to Soma-sacrifice practitioners (somapāyins); the verse itself prescribes no new rite.