Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 186

Devanagari script

आदिकर्त्ता स्वयं यस्मादादित्यस्तेन चोच्यते । प्रभासे संस्थितो देवः सर्वपातकनाशनः

Transliteration

ādikarttā svayaṃ yasmādādityastena cocyate | prabhāse saṃsthito devaḥ sarvapātakanāśanaḥ

Translation

เพราะพระองค์ทรงเป็นผู้สร้างดั้งเดิมด้วยพระองค์เอง จึงได้ชื่อว่า ‘อาทิตยะ’ เทวะผู้ประทับ ณ ประภาสะนั้น เป็นผู้ทำลายบาปทั้งปวง

Word by Word

• ādi-karttā: the primordial creator
• ādi-karttā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ādi (प्रातिपदिक) + kartṛ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — Masculine, Nominative, Singular; कर्मधारय/तत्पुरुषार्थः ‘ādiḥ kartā’

• svayam: himself
• svayam: Kriya-visheshana (Emphasis/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: svayam (अव्यय)
• Form: स्वार्थे अव्यय — reflexive/emphatic indeclinable

• yasmāt: because/from which
• yasmāt: Apadana (Cause/Source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसक, पञ्चमी, एकवचन — Ablative (5th), Singular (relative pronoun)

• ādityaḥ: (he is) Āditya/Sun
• ādityaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: āditya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• tena: therefore/by that
• tena: Karana (Reason/Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसक, तृतीया, एकवचन — Instrumental (3rd), Singular (pronoun)

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चय-अव्यय — conjunction

• ucyate: is called
• ucyate: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √vac (वच्)
• Form: लट्-लकार, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; कर्मणि प्रयोग — Present indicative, 3rd person, Singular; passive voice

• prabhāse: in Prabhāsa
• prabhāse: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prabhāsa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन — Masculine, Locative (7th), Singular

• saṃsthitaḥ: situated/established
• saṃsthitaḥ: Karta (Qualifier/कर्ता-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: saṃsthita (कृदन्त; √sthā (स्था) with sam- (धातु))
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; भूतकृदन्त (क्त) — Masculine, Nominative, Singular; past participle

• devaḥ: the god
• devaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: deva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• sarva-pātaka-nāśanaḥ: destroyer of all sins
• sarva-pātaka-nāśanaḥ: Karta (Qualifier/कर्ता-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक) + pātaka (प्रातिपदिक) + nāśana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — Masculine, Nominative, Singular; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (sarveṣāṃ pātakānāṃ nāśanaḥ)

Speaker

Īśvara (Śiva)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Āditya-saṃnidhya)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: The Sun-deity as Āditya, radiant and calm, enthroned or standing in a sanctified Prabhāsa landscape—sea-breeze, sacred groves, and a tīrtha ambience—while devotees offer arghya; the verse’s focus is on the epithet ‘Āditya’ and universal sin-destruction.

Characters & Entities

• Āditya (Sūrya)
• Prabhāsa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Sūrya is praised as primal order and creator; devotion at Prabhāsa is presented as a powerful purifier of sin.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra, explicitly stated as the abode where the deity destroys all pāṭakas.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No specific rite is named, but the verse implies merit through worship/approach to Sūrya at Prabhāsa.