Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 74

Devanagari script

त्वत्पाणिपद्मे कमला त्वत्क्रोधेस्ति हलाहलः । अमृतं तव वागेव त्वद्भुजावश्विनीसुतौ

Transliteration

tvatpāṇipadme kamalā tvatkrodhesti halāhalaḥ | amṛtaṃ tava vāgeva tvadbhujāvaśvinīsutau

Translation

آپ کے دست کے کنول میں کمالا (لکشمی) جلوہ گر ہے؛ آپ کے غضب میں ہالاہل زہر ہے۔ آپ کی وانی ہی امرت ہے، اور آپ کے دونوں بازو اشونی کماروں کی مانند، دیوی طبیب ہیں۔

Word by Word

• tvat-pāṇi-padme: in your lotus-hand
• tvat-pāṇi-padme: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) + pāṇi (प्रातिपदिक) + padma (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (tava pāṇi-padme = in your hand-lotus)

• kamalā: Kamalā (Lakṣmī)
• kamalā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kamalā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• tvat-krodhe: in your anger
• tvat-krodhe: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) + krodha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (in your anger)

• asti: is
• asti: Kriya (Verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: as (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• halāhalaḥ: Hālāhala poison
• halāhalaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: halāhala (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• amṛtam: nectar, immortality
• amṛtam: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: amṛta (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• tava: your
• tava: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• vāk: speech
• vāk: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vāc (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• eva: indeed, alone
• eva: Sambandha (Particle/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva (अव्यय)
• Form: निपात (particle/emphasis)

• tvat-bhujau: your two arms
• tvat-bhujau: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) + bhuja (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), द्विवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (your two arms)

• aśvinī-sutau: the two Aśvinī-sons (Aśvinīkumāras)
• aśvinī-sutau: Samānādhikaraṇa (Apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: aśvinī (प्रातिपदिक) + suta (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), द्विवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (aśvinyāḥ sutau = the two sons of Aśvinī)

Speaker

Skanda (contextual)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A symbolic portrait: the deity’s hand-lotus bears Lakṣmī; a dark-blue/black aura of halāhala rises at the brow in wrath; from the mouth flows a stream of nectar-like syllables; the arms radiate healing light like the Aśvinī twins’ medicine.

Characters & Entities

• Kamalā (Lakṣmī)
• Hālāhala
• Aśvinīkumāras (Aśvin twins)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Power becomes auspicious when guided by dharma: wealth in the hand, controlled wrath as deterrence, and speech that heals like nectar.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

No tīrtha is directly named; the verse continues the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s celebratory praise style.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None.