Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 8

Devanagari script

मासि मासि निराहारो द्वादश्यां कुरुनन्दन । केशवं पूजयेन्नित्यं मासि मार्गशिरे बुधः

Transliteration

māsi māsi nirāhāro dvādaśyāṃ kurunandana | keśavaṃ pūjayennityaṃ māsi mārgaśire budhaḥ

Translation

اے کُرونندن! ہر ماہ دوادشی کے دن نِراہار رہ کر، ماہِ مارگشیِرش میں دانا شخص کو روزانہ کیشو کی پوجا کرنی چاہیے۔

Word by Word

• मासि: in (each) month
• मासि: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मास (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/सप्तमी), एकवचन; अधिकरण (locative of time)

• मासि: month by month
• मासि: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मास (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/सप्तमी), एकवचन; पुनरुक्ति (repetition)

• निराहारः: fasting / without food
• निराहारः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: निराहार (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन; विशेषण (predicate adjective)

• द्वादश्याम्: on the Dvādaśī (12th lunar day)
• द्वादश्याम्: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्वादशी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/सप्तमी), एकवचन; कालाधिकरण (time-locative)

• कुरुनन्दन: O delight of the Kurus
• कुरुनन्दन: Sambodhana (Vocative/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कुरुनन्दन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th/सम्बोधन), एकवचन; संबोधन

• केशवम्: Keśava (Viṣṇu)
• केशवम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: केशव (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन; कर्म (object)

• पूजयेत्: should worship
• पूजयेत्: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पूज् (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (optative), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन

• नित्यम्: always
• नित्यम्: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नित्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय; क्रियाविशेषण (adverb)

• मासि: in the month
• मासि: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मास (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/सप्तमी), एकवचन; अधिकरण (time)

• मार्गशीर्षे: in Mārgaśīrṣa
• मार्गशीर्षे: Adhikarana (Locative/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मार्गशीर्ष (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/सप्तमी), एकवचन; अधिकरण (time)

• बुधः: a wise person
• बुधः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: बुध (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन; कर्ता

Speaker

Skanda (deduced)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) tīrthas (contextual frame)

Type: river

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Kuru-nandana (a Bharata/Kuru prince figure)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A disciplined devotee on Dvādaśī, seated near a riverbank shrine, offering tulasī and lamp to Keśava; a calendar wheel of months subtly behind, indicating cyclical worship.

Characters & Entities

• Keśava
• Dvādaśī
• Mārgaśīrṣa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Regular vrata-discipline (Dvādaśī fasting) joined with focused worship of Viṣṇu’s names sanctifies the year.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Not a single tirtha is named; the teaching appears within the Revā Khaṇḍa’s sacred setting.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Nirāhāra (fasting) on Dvādaśī and worship of Keśava in the month of Mārgaśīrṣa.