Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 61

Devanagari script

इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां सहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखण्डे प्रथमे प्रभास क्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये ललितोमाविशालाक्षी माहात्म्यवर्णनंनामैकषष्टितमोऽध्यायः

Transliteration

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ sahitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsa kṣetramāhātmye lalitomāviśālākṣī māhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikaṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ดังนี้จบลงเป็นอธิบายที่หกสิบเอ็ด ชื่อว่า “พรรณนามหิมาแห่งพระลลิตา พระอุมา และพระวิศาลักษี” ในประภาสขันฑะ ภายในประภาสเกษตรมหาตมยะ แห่งศรีสกันทมหาปุราณะ (คัมภีร์รวมแปดหมื่นหนึ่งพันโศลก)

Word by Word

• इति: thus
• इति: Sambandha (Discourse marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: iti (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (colophon marker/समाप्तिसूचक)

• श्री-स्कांदे: in the revered Skanda (Purāṇa)
• श्री-स्कांदे: Adhikarana (Text locus/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śrī (प्रातिपदिक) + skanda (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; कर्मधारय (honorific + name)

• महापुराणे: in the Mahāpurāṇa
• महापुराणे: Adhikarana (Text locus/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mahā (प्रातिपदिक) + purāṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; कर्मधारय (great + purāṇa)

• एकाशीति-साहस्र्याम्: in the (collection of) eighty-one thousand (verses)
• एकाशीति-साहस्र्याम्: Adhikarana (Section locus/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ekāśīti (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक) + sāhasrī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; द्विगु-समास (81-thousand (collection))

• सहितायाम्: in the compilation/saṃhitā
• सहितायाम्: Adhikarana (Qualifier/अधिकरण-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sahitā (कृदन्त/प्रातिपदिक; √sah धातोः क्त)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; क्तान्त विशेषण

• सप्तमे: in the seventh
• सप्तमे: Adhikarana (Qualifier/अधिकरण-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: saptama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; खण्डे इति विशेषण

• प्रभास-खण्डे: in the Prabhāsa section
• प्रभास-खण्डे: Adhikarana (Section locus/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prabhāsa (प्रातिपदिक) + khaṇḍa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (prabhāsasya khaṇḍaḥ)

• प्रथमे: in the first
• प्रथमे: Adhikarana (Qualifier/अधिकरण-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: prathama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; माहात्म्ये इति विशेषण

• प्रभास: Prabhāsa
• प्रभास: Sambandha (Compound member/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prabhāsa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (stem-form used as compound member)

• क्षेत्र-माहात्म्ये: in the ‘Greatness of the sacred place’
• क्षेत्र-माहात्म्ये: Adhikarana (Topic locus/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kṣetra (प्रातिपदिक) + māhātmya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (kṣetrasya māhātmyaṃ)

• ललित-उमा-विशालाक्षी: Lalitā, Umā, (and) Viśālākṣī
• ललित-उमा-विशालाक्षी: Sambandha (Title element/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: lalitā (प्रातिपदिक) + umā (प्रातिपदिक) + viśālākṣī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (title compound; dvandva listing deities/epithets)

• माहात्म्य-वर्णनम्: the narration of the greatness
• माहात्म्य-वर्णनम्: Sambandha (Title/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: māhātmya (प्रातिपदिक) + varṇana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (Nom/Acc), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (māhātmyasya varṇanam)

• नाम: named
• नाम: Sambandha (Apposition marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: nāman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय (title-marker: 'named')

• एक-षष्टितमः: sixty-first
• एक-षष्टितमः: Karta (Qualifier of adhyāyaḥ/कर्ता-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: eka (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक) + ṣaṣṭi (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक) + tama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन; क्रमवाचक द्विगु (61st)

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: adhyāya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन

Speaker

Narratorial colophon (textual closure formula)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (chapter boundary marker)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A manuscript-ending vignette: scribal colophon panel with decorative flourishes; the named goddesses symbolically represented—Lalitā, Umā, Viśālākṣī—above the text as protective icons.

Characters & Entities

• Skanda Purāṇa
• Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa
• Prabhāsa-kṣetra
• Lalitā
• Umā
• Viśālākṣī

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

It marks the completion of a Māhātmya chapter, emphasizing the Purāṇic method of preserving sacred geography through structured narration.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra, the sacred region celebrated in the Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None in this verse; it is a chapter-ending colophon.