Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 24

Devanagari script

युगपच्च त्वया शक्त्या साकं कालस्वरूपिणा । मयाऽद्य पुरुषेणैतत्क्षेत्रं चापि विनिर्मितम्

Transliteration

yugapacca tvayā śaktyā sākaṃ kālasvarūpiṇā | mayā'dya puruṣeṇaitatkṣetraṃ cāpi vinirmitam

Translation

اے شکتی! تمہارے ساتھ، اور اُس کے ساتھ جس کی حقیقت ہی کال (زمان) ہے، میں—آج پُرُش کے روپ میں—اس مقدّس کشتَر (کشیتر) کو بھی رچ بسایا ہے۔

Word by Word

• yugapat: simultaneously
• yugapat: Sambandha (Adverbial/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yugapat (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (adverb): युगपत् (simultaneously)

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (conjunction/particle): च (and)

• tvayā: by you
• tvayā: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, तृतीया (3rd/करण), एकवचन

• śaktyā: with power/energy
• śaktyā: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śakti (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/करण), एकवचन

• sākam: together with
• sākam: Sahakari (Accompaniment/सहकारी)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: sākam (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (prepositional adverb): साकम् (together with)

• kāla-svarūpiṇā: with the one whose form is Time
• kāla-svarūpiṇā: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kāla (प्रातिपदिक) + svarūpin (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/करण), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष: कालस्य स्वरूपः यस्य (having the form of Time)

• mayā: by me
• mayā: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, तृतीया (3rd/करण), एकवचन

• adya: now/today
• adya: Sambandha (Temporal/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: adya (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (adverb): अद्य (today/now)

• puruṣeṇa: as/with the Puruṣa (person)
• puruṣeṇa: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: puruṣa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/करण), एकवचन

• etat: this
• etat: Karma (Object qualifier/कर्म-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: etad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/कर्म), एकवचन; विशेषण (this)

• kṣetram: field/realm
• kṣetram: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kṣetra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/कर्म), एकवचन

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (conjunction): च (and)

• api: also
• api: Sambandha (Particle/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: api (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (particle): अपि (also)

• vinirmitam: was fashioned/created
• vinirmitam: Kriya (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vi-nis-√mā (धातु)
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; कर्मणि प्रयोगे ‘(was) constructed/created’

Speaker

Skanda

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (Pañcakrośī)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Agastya

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A grand cosmogonic scene: Puruṣa (Śiva-like) with Devī-Śakti and a personified Kāla (wheel/time aura) jointly shaping a luminous mandala-map of Kāśī, with the five-krośa boundary hinted as a radiant ring.

Characters & Entities

• Śakti
• Kāla (Time principle)
• Puruṣa
• Kṣetra (Avimukta/Kāśī)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

The holy kṣetra is not accidental geography; it is a deliberate divine manifestation rooted in consciousness (Puruṣa), power (Śakti), and time (Kāla).

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Avimukta-kṣetra of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), presented as divinely ‘constructed’ for līlā and liberation.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None explicitly; the verse provides the origin-story that underwrites pilgrimage merit.