Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 44

Devanagari script

कोटिहोमेन यत्प्रोक्तं फलमन्यत्र सूरिभिः । अष्टोत्तराहुतिशतात्तदत्रानंदकानने

Transliteration

koṭihomena yatproktaṃ phalamanyatra sūribhiḥ | aṣṭottarāhutiśatāttadatrānaṃdakānane

Translation

جو پھل اہلِ دانش کہیں اور کروڑ ہوموں سے حاصل ہونا بتاتے ہیں، وہی پھل یہاں آنندکانن میں صرف ایک سو آٹھ آہوتیوں سے مل جاتا ہے۔

Word by Word

• कोटिहोमेन: by a crore of fire-offerings
• कोटिहोमेन: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कोटि (प्रातिपदिक) + होम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/करण), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (कोटीनां होमः) — Instrumental singular: “by/with a crore of homas”

• यत्: which
• यत्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; सम्बन्ध-सूचक सर्वनाम — relative pronoun “which/that”

• प्रोक्तम्: declared
• प्रोक्तम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + वच् (धातु) → प्रोक्त (कृदन्त-भूतकर्मणि)
• Form: भूतकर्मणि कृदन्त (क्त), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; passive past participle — “said/declared”

• फलम्: fruit/result
• फलम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: फल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन — result/fruit

• अन्यत्र: elsewhere
• अन्यत्र: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अन्यत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, देशवाचक क्रियाविशेषण — adverb “elsewhere”

• सूरिभिः: by sages
• सूरिभिः: Kartr (Agent/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सूरि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/करण), बहुवचन — by sages/learned ones

• अष्टोत्तराहुतिशतात्: than (from) a hundred-and-eight oblations
• अष्टोत्तराहुतिशतात्: Apadana (Ablative/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अष्टोत्तर (प्रातिपदिक) + आहुति (प्रातिपदिक) + शत (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/अपादान), एकवचन; समासः (अष्टोत्तरं शतं आहुतयः यस्मिन्/यस्य) — Ablative singular: “from/than (the act of) 108 oblations”

• तत्: that (fruit)
• तत्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन — demonstrative “that”

• अत्र: here
• अत्र: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय, देशवाचक — adverb “here”

• आनन्दकानने: in Ānandakānana (the bliss-grove)
• आनन्दकानने: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: आनन्द (प्रातिपदिक) + कानन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/अधिकरण), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (आनन्दस्य काननम्) — Locative singular: “in the grove of bliss (Ānandakānana)”

Speaker

Skanda

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Ānandakānana (within Kāśī/Avimukta)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Not specified in the excerpt

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A small homa-kunda in a leafy sacred grove of Kāśī; a devotee offers 108 ghee oblations while the aura of Viśveśvara’s kṣetra magnifies the rite; distant suggestion of ghats and temple spires.

Characters & Entities

• Ānandakānana (Kāśī)
• Homa
• Āhuti

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Kāśī’s Ānandakānana is portrayed as a supreme ritual-field where limited acts, done rightly, yield vast results.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Ānandakānana, the sacred ‘Bliss-forest’ of Kāśī.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Performing homa with 108 oblations (aṣṭottara-āhuti-śata) in Ānandakānana.