Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 80

Devanagari script

इति सप्तविधं पापं स्नानान्मे सप्तसप्तिके । सप्तव्याधिसमायुक्तं हर माकरि सप्तमि

Transliteration

iti saptavidhaṃ pāpaṃ snānānme saptasaptike | saptavyādhisamāyuktaṃ hara mākari saptami

Translation

یوں یہ سات قسم کے پاپ میرے ‘سات بار سات’ والے اسنان سے دور ہوں؛ اے ماکری سپتمی، انہیں ہٹا دے اور ان کے ساتھ جڑی سات بیماریوں کے مجموعے کو بھی مٹا دے۔

Word by Word

• इति: thus
• इति: Sambandha (Discourse marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति (अव्यय)
• Form: उद्धरण/समाप्त्यर्थक अव्यय (quotative/thus)

• सप्तविधम्: sevenfold
• सप्तविधम्: Visheshana (Adjectival modifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्त (संख्या) + विध (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘सप्त प्रकाराः यस्य’ (sevenfold)

• पापम्: sin
• पापम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन

• स्नानात्: from bathing
• स्नानात्: Apadana (Source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्नान (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/Ablative), एकवचन

• मे: for me
• मे: Sampradana (Beneficiary/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी/चतुर्थी, एकवचन; एन्क्लिटिक

• सप्तसप्तिके: at Saptasaptikā (place/ghāṭa)
• सप्तसप्तिके: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सप्तसप्तिक (प्रातिपदिक; विशेष-नाम/तीर्थ-नाम)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग/पुंलिङ्ग (प्रयोगानुसार), सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; ‘सप्त-सप्ति’ (seven sevens) इति द्विगु-समास; स्थानवाचक

• सप्तव्याधिसमायुक्तम्: (sin) associated with seven ailments
• सप्तव्याधिसमायुक्तम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्त (संख्या) + व्याधि (प्रातिपदिक) + समायुक्त (सम्-आ-युज् धातु, क्त; कृदन्त)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; ‘सप्तव्याधिभिः समायुक्तम्’ (endowed/associated with seven diseases)

• हर: remove
• हर: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: हृ (धातु)
• Form: लोट् (Imperative), मध्यमपुरुष (2nd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• माकरि: O Mākarī
• माकरि: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: माकरि (प्रातिपदिक; सम्बोधन)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन; ‘माकरी’ इत्यस्य सम्बोधनरूप

• सप्तमि: O Saptamī
• सप्तमि: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सप्तमी (प्रातिपदिक; सम्बोधन)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन; तिथिदेवी-सम्बोधन

Speaker

Unspecified (concluding line of the mantra set)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Keśavāditya (Kāśī)

Type: ghat

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A ritual bath sequence at a Kāśī ghāṭa: the devotee immerses repeatedly or performs a counted ablution, with seven symbolic lotuses or seven rays of the sun above; afflictions depicted as dissolving shadows.

Characters & Entities

• Mākarī Saptamī

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Ritual purity is not merely physical: bathing joined to vow and prayer is presented as a means to dissolve karmic causes of suffering.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The teaching belongs to Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s sacred setting, where bathing rites and sun-related tīrthas are especially praised.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Snāna (ritual bath) connected to a ‘sapta-saptika’ measure, accompanied by invocation of Mākarī Saptamī.