Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 28

Devanagari script

ऋषिभिश्च यदा दृष्टा गंगा मीनयुता शुभा । दृष्टमात्रास्तु ते मत्स्यास्त्रिनेत्रत्वमुपागताः

Transliteration

ṛṣibhiśca yadā dṛṣṭā gaṃgā mīnayutā śubhā | dṛṣṭamātrāstu te matsyāstrinetratvamupāgatāḥ

Translation

ครั้นเมื่อเหล่าฤๅษีได้เห็นพระคงคาอันเป็นมงคล มีหมู่ปลาแวดล้อมอยู่ ปลาทั้งหลายเหล่านั้นเพียงด้วยการได้เห็นนั้น ก็ได้บรรลุภาวะเป็นผู้มีเนตรสาม

Word by Word

• ṛṣibhiḥ: by the sages
• ṛṣibhiḥ: Karta (Agent, with passive)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ṛṣi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental/3rd), बहुवचन

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)

• yadā: when
• yadā: Kāla-adhikaraṇa
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yadā (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; कालवाचक (when)

• dṛṣṭā: was seen
• dṛṣṭā: Kriyā (Predicate: was seen)
• Type: Verb
• Root: dṛś (धातु) + kta (क्त) → dṛṣṭa (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past participle used finitely), स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; कर्मणि प्रयोग (passive sense)

• gaṃgā: Gaṅgā
• gaṃgā: Karma (Patient, in passive)
• Type: Noun
• Root: gaṃgā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• mīna-yutā: accompanied by fish
• mīna-yutā: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier of gaṃgā)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: mīna (प्रातिपदिक) + yuta (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त ‘yuta’ (joined with)

• śubhā: auspicious; beautiful
• śubhā: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier of gaṃgā)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: śubha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• dṛṣṭa-mātrāḥ: at the mere sight (of her)
• dṛṣṭa-mātrāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier of matsyāḥ)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: dṛś (धातु) + kta → dṛṣṭa (कृदन्त) + mātra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; ‘only seen/at the mere sight’

• tu: indeed; but
• tu: Nipāta (Particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; अवधारण/विरोधसूचक (emphatic/contrastive particle)

• te: those
• te: Karta (Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक; सर्वनाम)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन (pronoun)

• matsyāḥ: fish
• matsyāḥ: Karta (Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: matsya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन

• tri-netratvam: three-eyedness
• tri-netratvam: Karma (Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tri (प्रातिपदिक) + netra (प्रातिपदिक) → trinetra (प्रातिपदिक) + -tva (त्व)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; तत्पुरुषः + भावप्रत्यय (state of being three-eyed)

• upāgatāḥ: attained; came to
• upāgatāḥ: Kriyā (Predicate)
• Type: Verb
• Root: upa-ā-gam (धातु) + kta (क्त) → upāgata (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past participle used finitely), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; गत्यर्थक—‘attained’

Speaker

Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narration within the dialogue)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Trinetra-kuṇḍa (implied sacred pond within Prabhāsa-kṣetra)

Type: kund

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Sages on a sacred bank behold an auspicious Gaṅgā-like current feeding a kuṇḍa; fish leap in the clear water and, upon being seen, bear a luminous third eye on their foreheads; the atmosphere is sanctified and wondrous.

Characters & Entities

• Ṛṣis
• Gaṅgā
• Matsya (fish)
• Śiva (implied by trainetrya)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Holy presence and darśana can transform even the lowest beings, proclaiming the extraordinary sanctity of the tirtha.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsakṣetra, where Gaṅgā’s presence grants miraculous transformation.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Implicitly, darśana (reverent beholding) of the sacred—Gaṅgā and the tirtha—shown as spiritually efficacious.