Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 14

Devanagari script

ततो गौरी सुदुःखार्ता शशाप त्रिदशालयान्

Transliteration

tato gaurī suduḥkhārtā śaśāpa tridaśālayān

Translation

ครั้นแล้วพระคุรีผู้ถูกความทุกข์อันหนักหน่วงครอบงำ ได้สาปแช่งเหล่าไตรทศผู้สถิตในสวรรค์

Word by Word

• ततः: then, thereafter
• ततः: Adhikarana (Context/काल-देश)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय (क्रियाविशेषण) = indeclinable adverb: "then/thereupon"

• गौरी: Gaurī (Pārvatī)
• गौरी: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: गौरी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• सुदुःखार्ता: greatly afflicted with sorrow
• सुदुःखार्ता: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सु- (उपसर्ग) + दुःख (प्रातिपदिक) + आर्ता (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √ऋ/आर्द् भावे)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; विशेषण (qualifier) गौरी-शब्दस्य

• शशाप: cursed
• शशाप: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √शप् (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• त्रिदशालयान्: the abodes of the gods (lit. thirty-gods’ dwellings)
• त्रिदशालयान्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्रिदश (प्रातिपदिक) + आलय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), बहुवचन; कर्मपद

Speaker

Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator, likely Sūta)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Arbuda-kṣetra (contextual)

Type: peak

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Gaurī, overwhelmed with sorrow, pronounces a curse upon the assembled gods; her grief radiates as fierce śakti.

Characters & Entities

• Gaurī
• Pārvatī
• Devas (Tridaśa)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Disrespecting the divine feminine and disrupting sacred harmony leads to consequences; dharma requires reverence and right conduct toward Devī.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The episode is embedded in Arbuda Khaṇḍa’s praise-context of the Arbuda sacred landscape.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None in this verse.