Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 45

Devanagari script

तदग्रे नारदं तीर्थं महापातकनाशनम् । ब्रह्मविद्योपदेशं च प्राप्तवान्यत्र नारदः

Transliteration

tadagre nāradaṃ tīrthaṃ mahāpātakanāśanam | brahmavidyopadeśaṃ ca prāptavānyatra nāradaḥ

Translation

اس کے آگے نارَد تیرتھ ہے، جو بڑے بڑے گناہوں کا ناس کرنے والا ہے؛ یہی وہ جگہ ہے جہاں نارَد نے برہما وِدیا کا اُپدیش پایا تھا۔

Word by Word

• तत्-अग्रे: in front of that / ahead of it
• तत्-अग्रे: Adhikarana (Locative sense/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) + अग्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्ययीभावसमासः; अव्ययवत् प्रयोगः — Locative sense ‘in front of that/thereafter’

• नारदम्: Nārada-named
• नारदम्: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नारद (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन — Nominative singular; विशेषणम् (नारदं तीर्थम्)

• तीर्थम्: a sacred place
• तीर्थम्: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन — Nominative singular

• महा-पातक-नाशनम्: destroyer of great sins
• महा-पातक-नाशनम्: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महा (प्रातिपदिक) + पातक (प्रातिपदिक) + नाशन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन — Nominative singular; विशेषणम्; समासः तत्पुरुषः — महतां पातकानां नाशनम्

• ब्रह्मविद्या-उपदेशम्: instruction in brahma-knowledge
• ब्रह्मविद्या-उपदेशम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्रह्मविद्या (प्रातिपदिक) + उपदेश (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन — Accusative singular; समासः षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (ब्रह्मविद्यायाः उपदेशः)

• च: and
• च: Samuccaya (Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चय (conjunction)

• प्राप्तवान्: obtained
• प्राप्तवान्: Kriya (Predicative action)
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + आप् (धातु)
• Form: क्तवतु-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त (Perfect participle/क्तवतु), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन — ‘having obtained’ (finite sense with implied ‘अस्ति’)

• यत्र: where
• यत्र: Adhikarana (Locative sense/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यत्र (अव्यय)
• Form: सम्बन्धबोधक-अव्यय (relative adverb of place)

• नारदः: Nārada
• नारदः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नारद (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), एकवचन — Nominative singular

Speaker

Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa context, typically Skanda instructing Agastya)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Nārada-tīrtha

Type: kund

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A serene tīrtha pool/ghāṭa labeled Nārada-tīrtha; Nārada, with vīṇā, receives brahma-vidyā instruction from a luminous sage/Keśava presence; the water glows as sins dissolve like dark smoke.

Characters & Entities

• Nārada
• Nārada-tīrtha
• Brahma-vidyā

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

True purification culminates in wisdom: the tīrtha removes grave sin and points toward brahma-vidyā.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Nārada-tīrtha, famed for destroying mahāpātakas and linked to Nārada’s spiritual instruction.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

The verse chiefly identifies the tīrtha and its power; it implies pilgrimage and snāna as the standard tīrtha practice.