Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 17

Devanagari script

ततो गृहस्थधर्माश्च ततो योगनिरूपणम् । कालज्ञानं ततः प्रोक्तं दिवोदासस्य वर्णनम्

Transliteration

tato gṛhasthadharmāśca tato yoganirūpaṇam | kālajñānaṃ tataḥ proktaṃ divodāsasya varṇanam

Translation

پھر گِرہستھ دھرم کے فرائض آتے ہیں؛ پھر یوگ کی توضیح۔ اس کے بعد کال-گیان (اوقاتِ سعد و نحس/شُبھ مُہورت) کی تعلیم بیان کی گئی ہے، اور پھر دیووداس کا بیان ہے۔

Word by Word

• tataḥ: thereafter; then
• tataḥ: Adhikarana (Context/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatas (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय (क्रियाविशेषण) — 'ततः' = thereafter/from that

• gṛhastha-dharmāḥ: duties of a householder
• gṛhastha-dharmāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: gṛhastha (प्रातिपदिक) + dharma (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (गृहस्थस्य धर्माः)

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

• tataḥ: then
• tataḥ: Adhikarana (Context/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatas (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय (क्रियाविशेषण) — thereafter

• yoga-nirūpaṇam: exposition of yoga
• yoga-nirūpaṇam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yoga (प्रातिपदिक) + nirūpaṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (योगस्य निरूपणम्)

• kāla-jñānam: knowledge of time
• kāla-jñānam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kāla (प्रातिपदिक) + jñāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (कालस्य ज्ञानम्)

• tataḥ: thereafter
• tataḥ: Adhikarana (Context/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatas (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय (क्रियाविशेषण) — thereafter

• proktam: is declared/said
• proktam: Kriya (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: pra√vac (धातु)
• Form: कृदन्त (भूतकर्मणि क्त-प्रत्ययान्त), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; कर्मणि प्रयोगे 'said/declared'

• divodāsasya: of Divodāsa
• divodāsasya: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: divodāsa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), एकवचन

• varṇanam: description
• varṇanam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: varṇana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन

Speaker

Skanda (deduced Kāśīkhaṇḍa setting)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (contextual)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Ṛṣis/assembly (contextual)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A didactic tableau in Kāśī: a sage enumerates the sequence—householder duties, yoga exposition, time-knowledge, and the story of King Divodāsa—against a backdrop of ghāṭas and temples.

Characters & Entities

• Gṛhastha-dharma
• Yoga
• Kāla-jñāna
• Divodāsa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Pilgrimage literature in the Purāṇas is also a manual of life-stages—householder duty, yogic practice, and sacred history are interwoven.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Implicitly Kāśī/Avimukta, with Divodāsa connected to Kāśī’s royal and sacred history.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Kāla-jñāna indicates attention to proper timing for rites, though no single rite is specified here.