Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 67

Devanagari script

प्रयाणं कुर्वते यस्य प्राणा मे मुक्तिमंडपे । समामनुप्रविष्टोत्र तिष्ठेद्यावदहं खलु

Transliteration

prayāṇaṃ kurvate yasya prāṇā me muktimaṃḍape | samāmanupraviṣṭotra tiṣṭhedyāvadahaṃ khalu

Translation

Sa sinumang ang hininga ng buhay ay lumisan sa Aking Mukti Maṇḍapa, Ako mismo’y pumapasok doon na kasama ng kanyang mga prāṇa, at nananatili roon kasama ng kaluluwang yaon hangga’t Ako’y tunay na mananatili.

Word by Word

• prayāṇam: departure (death)
• prayāṇam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prayāṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/कर्म), एकवचन

• kurvate: perform
• kurvate: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √kṛ (धाातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), आत्मनेपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन; (they) do/perform

• yasya: of whom/whose
• yasya: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), एकवचन; सम्बन्धसूचक (relative)

• prāṇāḥ: life-breaths
• prāṇāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prāṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/कर्ता), बहुवचन

• me: my
• me: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th/सम्बन्ध), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• mukti-maṇḍape: in the Mukti pavilion
• mukti-maṇḍape: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mukti (प्रातिपदिक) + maṇḍapa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/अधिकरण), एकवचन; समासः—षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष

• samām: for a year
• samām: Kāla-adhikarana (Time/काल)
• Type: Noun
• Root: samā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/काल-अत्यन्तसंयोग), एकवचन; कालपरिमाण (duration)

• anupraviṣṭaḥ: having entered (after)
• anupraviṣṭaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: anu + pra + √viś (धाातु) + kta
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त भूतकृदन्त (having entered/followed in)

• atra: here
• atra: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: atra (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; देशवाचक क्रियाविशेषण (here)

• tiṣṭhet: should remain
• tiṣṭhet: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √sthā (धाातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन

• yāvat: as long as
• yāvat: Sambandha (Limiter/अवच्छेद)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yāvat (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; अवच्छेदक (limitative) = as long as/until

• aham: I
• aham: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: प्रथमा (1st/कर्ता), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• khalu: indeed
• khalu: Sambandha (Particle/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: khalu (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निपात (emphasis/assurance)

Speaker

Skanda

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Mukti Maṇḍapa (Kāśī)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Traditional interlocutor (often Pārvatī)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A dying devotee in Mukti Maṇḍapa, surrounded by lamps and quiet attendants; subtle, compassionate manifestation of Śiva entering with the departing prāṇas—shown as a luminous presence guiding a small soul-light upward, remaining beside it.

Characters & Entities

• Kāśī (Vārāṇasī)
• Mukti Maṇḍapa
• Śiva (implied by 'I' in Kāśī context)
• Prāṇa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Kāśī is portrayed as a direct sphere of divine grace, where the Lord personally accompanies the departing soul toward liberation.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The Mukti Maṇḍapa in Kāśī, a liberation-conferring sacred precinct.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Not a ritual but an eschatological teaching: the supreme benefit of departing (dying) within the Mukti Maṇḍapa.