Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 29

Devanagari script

भार्यया सहितो व्याधो हरिं ध्यात्वा पपात ह । नगार्धात्पतितो यावद्गतजीवो नराधिप

Transliteration

bhāryayā sahito vyādho hariṃ dhyātvā papāta ha | nagārdhātpatito yāvadgatajīvo narādhipa

Translation

شکاری اپنی بیوی کے ساتھ ہری کا دھیان کرتے ہوئے گر پڑا۔ پہاڑ کی ڈھلوان سے گرتے ہی، اے بادشاہ، اس کی جان نکل گئی۔

Word by Word

• भार्यया: with (his) wife
• भार्यया: Saha (Association/सह)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भार्या (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental/3rd), एकवचन (Singular)

• सहितः: accompanied (by)
• सहितः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सहित (प्रातिपदिक/कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past participle used adjectivally), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• व्याधः: hunter
• व्याधः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: व्याध (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• हरिम्: Hari (Vishnu)
• हरिम्: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: हरि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• ध्यात्वा: having meditated on
• ध्यात्वा: Pūrvakāla-kriyā (Prior action)
• Type: Verb
• Root: ध्यै (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (Gerund/Absolutive)

• पपात: fell
• पपात: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पत् (धातु)
• Form: लिट्-लकार (Perfect), परस्मैपद, प्रथम-पुरुष, एकवचन

• ह: indeed
• ह: Avyaya (Particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ह (अव्यय)
• Form: निपात (particle; emphasis/indeed)

• नग-अर्धात्: from the mountainside/half of the mountain
• नग-अर्धात्: Apādāna (Source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नग (प्रातिपदिक) + अर्ध (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी-विभक्ति (Ablative/5th), एकवचन; समासः षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (mountain's half/side)

• पतितः: fallen
• पतितः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पत् (धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• यावत्: until
• यावत्: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (Time/कालाधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यावत् (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (correlative; 'until/as long as')

• गतजीवः: lifeless, dead
• गतजीवः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: गत (गम्-धातु, कृदन्त) + जीव (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: बहुव्रीहि-समास (one whose life has gone), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• नराधिप: O king
• नराधिप: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नर + अधिप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन-विभक्ति (Vocative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (lord of men)

Speaker

Narrator within the dialogue (speaker not explicit in snippet)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Unnamed kuṇḍa and adjacent hill in Revākhaṇḍa episode

Type: peak

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Narādhipa (king)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A hunter and his wife, eyes inward in Hari-dhyāna, slip/fall from a rocky mountainside toward a kuṇḍa below; the moment is both tragic and sanctified by devotion.

Characters & Entities

• Hari
• King (Narādhipa)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Remembrance of the Divine (Hari-smaraṇa) even at a critical moment is presented as spiritually transformative.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse itself does not name the site; the surrounding Revā Khaṇḍa context links the event to a sacred locale associated with a kuṇḍa/tīrtha.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Meditative remembrance (dhyāna/smaraṇa) of Hari.