Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 10

Devanagari script

मूर्त्तयस्तिथिनान्म्यः स्युरेकादश्यः सदैव हि । संवत्सरेण पूज्यंते चतुर्विंश तिमूर्तयः

Transliteration

mūrttayastithinānmyaḥ syurekādaśyaḥ sadaiva hi | saṃvatsareṇa pūjyaṃte caturviṃśa timūrtayaḥ

Translation

یہ صورتیں تِتھیوں کے مطابق ہیں؛ بے شک ایکادشی ہمیشہ ان کے خاص اوقات ہیں۔ یوں سال بھر میں چوبیس صورتوں کی پوجا کی جاتی ہے۔

Word by Word

• mūrtayaḥ: forms / images
• mūrtayaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mūrti (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• tithīnām: of lunar days (tithis)
• tithīnām: Sambandha (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tithi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), बहुवचन

• ādyāḥ: beginning (ones)
• ādyāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ādya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• syuḥ: would be / are (to be)
• syuḥ: Kriyā (Verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: as (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), बहुवचन

• ekādaśyaḥ: Ekādaśīs
• ekādaśyaḥ: Karta (Subject complement)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ekādaśī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; ‘एकादशी’ (11th lunar day)

• sadaiva: always
• sadaiva: Adhikaraṇa (Temporal)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: sadā + eva (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्ययीभाव-समास; क्रियाविशेषण (adverb)

• hi: indeed
• hi: Sambandha (Emphasis)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: hi (अव्यय)
• Form: निपात (emphatic particle)

• saṃvatsareṇa: by (the cycle of) a year
• saṃvatsareṇa: Karaṇa (Instrument/means)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃvatsara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), एकवचन

• pūjyante: are worshipped
• pūjyante: Kriyā (Verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: pūj (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), कर्मणि प्रयोग (Passive), प्रथमपुरुष, बहुवचन

• caturviṃśati: twenty-four
• caturviṃśati: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: catur-viṃśati (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: संख्यावाचक (numeral) अव्ययवत्; ‘twenty-four’ (used to qualify)

• mūrtayaḥ: forms / images
• mūrtayaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mūrti (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

Speaker

Brahmā (in Brahma–Nārada dialogue; implied by section context)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A full-year ritual wheel: a circular calendar (saṃvatsara-cakra) with Ekādaśī highlighted each month; around it, 24 Viṣṇu icons; devotees performing monthly worship, lamps and tulasī prominent.

Characters & Entities

• Ekādaśī
• Viṣṇu (twenty-four forms)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Time itself becomes sacred when aligned with dharma—tithis and especially Ekādaśī guide steady, year-long worship.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The teaching appears within the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra-māhātmya narrative stream, where Śāligrāma-centered devotion is celebrated.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Observance of Ekādaśī and worship of the twenty-four Viṣṇu forms through the yearly calendar.