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Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 40

Devanagari script

नारद उवाच । पाद्मकल्पे व्यतिक्रांते रात्र्यंते शृणु वामन । ब्रह्माण्डं वारिणा व्याप्तमन्यत्किं चिन्न विद्यते

Transliteration

nārada uvāca | pādmakalpe vyatikrāṃte rātryaṃte śṛṇu vāmana | brahmāṇḍaṃ vāriṇā vyāptamanyatkiṃ cinna vidyate

Translation

นารทกล่าวว่า “จงฟังเถิด โอ วามนะ เมื่อปัทมกัลปะล่วงไปแล้ว ณ ปลายราตรี ไข่จักรวาลทั้งสิ้นถูกน้ำแผ่ซ่านปกคลุม มิได้มีสิ่งอื่นใดเลย”

Word by Word
nāradaḥNārada
nāradaḥ:
Karta (Speaker/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootnārada (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन
uvācasaid
uvāca:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootvac (वच् धातु)
Formलिट् (परोक्षभूत), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन (perfect, 3rd person singular, active)
pādma-kalpein the Pādma kalpa
pādma-kalpe:
Adhikarana (Location/Time/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootpādma (पाद्म-प्रातिपदिक) + kalpa (कल्प-प्रातिपदिक)
Formतत्पुरुष-समास; पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन (locative singular)
vyatikrāntewhen (it) had passed
vyatikrānte:
Adhikarana (Locative absolute/सप्तमी-सम्बन्ध)
TypeVerb
Rootvi-ati-kram (क्रम् धातु) + ta (क्त)
Formक्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त; पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन; ‘व्यतीते’ (PPP used in locative absolute)
rātri-anteat the end of the night
rātri-ante:
Adhikarana (Time/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootrātri (रात्रि-प्रातिपदिक) + anta (अन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
Formतत्पुरुष-समास; पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन (locative singular)
śṛṇulisten
śṛṇu:
Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootśru (श्रु धातु)
Formलोट्, परस्मैपद, मध्यमपुरुष, एकवचन (imperative, 2nd person singular)
vāmanaO Vāmana
vāmana:
Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
TypeNoun
Rootvāmana (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन, एकवचन (vocative singular)
brahmāṇḍamthe universe (cosmic egg)
brahmāṇḍam:
Karma (Object/कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootbrahma (ब्रह्म-प्रातिपदिक) + aṇḍa (अण्ड-प्रातिपदिक)
Formतत्पुरुष-समास; नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन
vāriṇāby water
vāriṇā:
Karana (Instrument/करण)
TypeNoun
Rootvāri (वारि-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया, एकवचन (neuter, instrumental singular)
vyāptampervaded, filled
vyāptam:
Kriya (Predicate state/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootvi-āp (आप् धातु) + ta (क्त)
Formक्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त (PPP); नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘आवृतम्/व्याप्तम्’
anyatanything else
anyat:
Karta (Subject of vidyate/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootanya (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन
kimwhat?
kim:
Karta (Subject/Predicate interrogative/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootkim (किम्-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन (interrogative)
citat all, any
cit:
Sambandha (Particle/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootcit (अव्यय)
Formअनिश्चितार्थक-अव्यय (indefinite particle, enclitic)
nanot
na:
Sambandha (Negation/सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootna (अव्यय)
Formनिषेधार्थक-अव्यय
vidyateexists, is found
vidyate:
Kriya (Existence/क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootvid (विद् धातु)
Formलट्, आत्मनेपद, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन (present, 3rd person singular, middle)
Speaker

Nārada

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Vastrāpatha-kṣetra (within Prabhāsa narrative frame)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Vāmana

Visual Art Cues

Scene: At the end of the cosmic night, the brahmāṇḍa is an endless expanse of dark, still waters; no land, no stars—only the suggestion of a vast oval cosmos submerged.

Characters & Entities
N
Nārada
V
Vāmana
P
Pādma-kalpa
B
Brahmāṇḍa
V
Vāri (cosmic waters)

FAQs

Purāṇic cosmology reminds that all manifest worlds arise from and dissolve back into the primordial order, encouraging humility and dharmic perspective.

Within the Vastrāpathakṣetra-māhātmya of Prabhāsa, cosmological teaching frames the sanctity of the region by linking local narrative to universal cycles.

None; the verse provides a cosmological account (kalpa and dissolution into waters) rather than a specific rite.

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