Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 64

Devanagari script

यथायथा प्रकाशेत पापं जन्मांतरार्जितम् । तथातथा व्रजेन्नाशं तस्य कायादशेषतः

Transliteration

yathāyathā prakāśeta pāpaṃ janmāṃtarārjitam | tathātathā vrajennāśaṃ tasya kāyādaśeṣataḥ

Translation

جس طرح وہ چراغ روشن ہوتا ہے، اسی طرح پچھلے جنموں سے جمع شدہ گناہ بھی اسی نسبت سے مٹتے جاتے ہیں اور اس کے جسم سے بالکل فنا ہو جاتے ہیں۔

Word by Word

• yathā-yathā: in whatever way / as (it)
• yathā-yathā: Sambandha (Correlative/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yathā (अव्यय)
• Form: पुनरुक्त-अव्ययम् (correlative adverb: ‘as…so…’, repeated for emphasis)

• prakāśeta: should shine forth / become manifest
• prakāśeta: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: pra-kāś (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथम-पुरुषः (3rd person), एकवचनम्; आत्मनेपदम्

• pāpam: sin
• pāpam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāpa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्तिः (Nom./Acc.), एकवचनम्; अत्र कर्मरूपेण (as object)

• janma-antara-arjitam: acquired in another birth
• janma-antara-arjitam: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: janman (प्रातिपदिक) + antara (प्रातिपदिक) + arjita (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक, √arj)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गे, द्वितीया-विभक्तिः (2nd/Accusative), एकवचनम्; कृदन्त-विशेषणम् (past passive participle ‘arjita’); समासः: जन्मान्तर- (सप्तमी/षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषार्थः: ‘in/through another birth’)

• tathā-tathā: in that same way / accordingly
• tathā-tathā: Sambandha (Correlative/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tathā (अव्यय)
• Form: पुनरुक्त-अव्ययम् (correlative adverb: ‘so…so…’)

• vrajet: should go / should proceed
• vrajet: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vraj (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), प्रथम-पुरुषः (3rd person), एकवचनम्; परस्मैपदम्

• nāśam: to destruction
• nāśam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nāśa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गे, द्वितीया-विभक्तिः (2nd/Accusative), एकवचनम्

• tasya: of it / of that (sin)
• tasya: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्गे, षष्ठी-विभक्तिः (6th/Genitive), एकवचनम्

• kāyāt: from the body
• kāyāt: Apadana (Ablative/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kāya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गे, पञ्चमी-विभक्तिः (5th/Ablative), एकवचनम्

• aśeṣataḥ: entirely
• aśeṣataḥ: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: aśeṣa (प्रातिपदिक) + tas (तसिल्-प्रत्यय)
• Form: तसिलन्त-अव्ययम् (adverb: ‘completely/without remainder’)

Speaker

Narrator/Ṛṣi addressing the King (contextual speaker within Arbuda Khaṇḍa)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Hṛṣīkeśa

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: nṛpa (king)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A bright lamp before Hṛṣīkeśa; from the flame, a visual metaphor of dark smoke dissolving—representing sins from past births leaving the devotee’s body; the devotee stands with folded hands, bathed in light.

Characters & Entities

• Kārttika
• Hṛṣīkeśa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Light offered in devotion symbolizes and effects inner purification—past-life sins are said to be burned away proportionate to the lamp’s radiance.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The Hṛṣīkeśa worship setting implied by the preceding lamp-offering instruction.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Continuation of the dīpa-offering rite: the shining lamp is linked to the destruction of accumulated pāpa.