Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 15

Devanagari script

मनुष्याणां भवेत्कृत्यमन्यनारीपरिग्रहः । एतत्त्वया कृतं यस्मान्मा नुषस्त्वं भविष्यसि

Transliteration

manuṣyāṇāṃ bhavetkṛtyamanyanārīparigrahaḥ | etattvayā kṛtaṃ yasmānmā nuṣastvaṃ bhaviṣyasi

Translation

สำหรับมนุษย์ การรับหญิงของผู้อื่นเป็นกรรมอันพินาศ ครั้นท่านได้กระทำเช่นนั้นแล้ว เพราะเหตุนั้นท่านจักต้องบังเกิดเป็นมนุษย์

Word by Word

• मनुष्याणाम्: of humans
• मनुष्याणाम्: Sambandha (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मनुष्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी, बहुवचन

• भवेत्: would be / should be
• भवेत्: Kriya (Main verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √भू (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative/विधि), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• कृत्यम्: a duty
• कृत्यम्: Karya/Predicative (Predicate noun)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृत्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; विधेय (predicate nominative)

• अन्यनारीपरिग्रहः: taking another woman (as wife)
• अन्यनारीपरिग्रहः: Karta/Predicative (Subject complement)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अन्या (प्रातिपदिक) + नारी (प्रातिपदिक) + परिग्रह (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुषः (अन्यस्याः नार्याः परिग्रहः)

• एतत्: this
• एतत्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: एतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• त्वया: by you
• त्वया: Kartr-karana (Agent in passive/कर्ता-करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्वद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तृतीया, एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• कृतम्: done
• कृतम्: Kriya (Predicate)
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृत (कृदन्त; √कृ (धातु))
• Form: कृदन्त (क्त), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘done’ (एतत् इत्यस्य विधेय/विशेषण)

• यस्मात्: because
• यस्मात्: Hetu (Cause/हेतु)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्ययप्राय; हेत्वर्थे ‘because’

• मा: not
• मा: Pratishedha (Negation)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: मा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निषेधार्थक (prohibitive/negative particle)

• नुषः: a human
• नुषः: Karya/Predicative (Predicate noun)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नुष (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; ‘man/human’ (rare form; here as predicate noun)

• त्वम्: you
• त्वम्: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्वद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: मध्यमपुरुष-सर्वनाम, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• भविष्यसि: will be
• भविष्यसि: Kriya (Main verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √भू (धातु)
• Form: लृट् (Future/भविष्यत्), मध्यमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद

Speaker

Sāvitrī (deduced from immediate narrative continuity in the same adhyāya)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Brahmā (Pitāmaha)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Sāvitrī’s curse intensifies: she declares the human consequence for the transgression; Brahmā and the assembly react with shock and solemnity.

Characters & Entities

• Sāvitrī

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

It condemns the adharma of desiring or taking another’s spouse and frames it as a cause of downfall and karmic consequence.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

This verse is within a Tīrthamāhātmya context, but this specific line focuses on moral causality (śāpa and karma) rather than naming a particular tīrtha.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None in this verse; it is a dharmic warning expressed through a curse and its consequence.