Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 75

Devanagari script

पपात शनिदर्शे च महीसागरसंगमे । सर्वतीर्थमये तत्र सर्वपापप्रमोचने

Transliteration

papāta śanidarśe ca mahīsāgarasaṃgame | sarvatīrthamaye tatra sarvapāpapramocane

Translation

وہ شَنِی درشہ میں، مہī ندی اور سمندر کے سنگم پر گری—وہاں وہ مقام ہے جو تمام تیرتھوں کا جامع ہے اور ہر گناہ سے رہائی دیتا ہے۔

Word by Word

• papāta: fell
• papāta: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पत् (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (singular), परस्मैपदम्; धातुः पत् (to fall)

• śanidarśe: at the sight/appearance of Śani
• śanidarśe: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śanidarśa (प्रातिपदिक) = śani + darśa
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन (singular); समासः षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (śaneḥ darśaḥ)

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक-अव्यय (conjunction)

• mahīsāgarasaṃgame: at the confluence of earth and ocean
• mahīsāgarasaṃgame: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mahīsāgarasaṃgama (प्रातिपदिक) = mahī + sāgara + saṃgama
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन (singular); समासः तत्पुरुषः (mahī-sāgarayoḥ saṃgamaḥ)

• sarvatīrthamaye: in the all-pilgrimage-places-embodying (place)
• sarvatīrthamaye: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarvatīrthamaya (प्रातिपदिक) = sarva + tīrtha + maya
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन (singular); विशेषणम्; समासः तत्पुरुषः (sarvāṇi tīrthāni yasmin)

• tatra: there
• tatra: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatra (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक-अव्यय (locative adverb)

• sarvapāpapramocane: in the remover of all sins (tīrtha)
• sarvapāpapramocane: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sarvapāpapramocana (प्रातिपदिक) = sarva + pāpa + pramocana
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (neuter), सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन (singular); समासः तत्पुरुषः (sarvapāpānāṃ pramocanam)

Speaker

Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta) to the sages (deduced)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Śanidarśa (Mahī–Sāgara Saṅgama)

Type: sangam

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Śaunaka and the Naimiṣāraṇya sages (typical frame; specific interlocutors not explicit in the verse)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A dramatic coastal confluence: the Mahī’s brown-green current meets the foaming sea; a sacred spot named Śanidarśa glows with tīrtha-radiance, suggesting ‘all tīrthas’ present invisibly; a falling body/limb marks the mythic consecration of the place.

Characters & Entities

• Mahī
• Sāgara
• Śanidarśa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

A sacred confluence is celebrated as spiritually potent—capable of dissolving accumulated sin through its tīrtha-prabhāva.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Śanidarśa at the Mahī–Sāgara-saṅgama (Mahī River meeting the ocean).

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No explicit ritual is stated here, but the standard implication of such verses is tīrtha-sevā—especially bathing (snāna) and worship at the confluence.