Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 9

Devanagari script

ऋषय ऊचुः । क्षयं यदुकुले याते भारे चोपहृते भुवः । प्रभासे यादवश्रेष्ठः स्वस्थानमगमद्धरिः

Transliteration

ṛṣaya ūcuḥ | kṣayaṃ yadukule yāte bhāre copahṛte bhuvaḥ | prabhāse yādavaśreṣṭhaḥ svasthānamagamaddhariḥ

Translation

رشیوں نے کہا: جب یادو خاندان کا زوال واقع ہوا اور زمین کا بوجھ ہٹا دیا گیا، تب پربھاس میں یادوؤں کے سردار ہری اپنے ذاتی الٰہی دھام کو روانہ ہو گئے۔

Word by Word

• ṛṣayaḥ: sages
• ṛṣayaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ṛṣi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन

• ūcuḥ: said
• ūcuḥ: Kriyā (Main action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vac (धातु)
• Form: लिट्-लकार, प्रथमपुरुष, बहुवचन; परस्मैपद

• kṣayam: destruction, end
• kṣayam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kṣaya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• yadu-kule: in the Yadu clan
• yadu-kule: Adhikaraṇa (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yadu (प्रातिपदिक) + kula (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; ‘yadūnām kule’ (in the Yadu clan)

• yāte: having occurred (gone)
• yāte: Kāla (Temporal circumstance/काल)
• Type: Verb
• Root: yā (धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्यय (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग/सप्तमी-एकवचन (locative absolute) agreeing with yadukule; ‘when (it) had gone/come’ → ‘when destruction had come’

• bhāre: when the burden
• bhāre: Adhikaraṇa (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन (locative absolute)

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (Conjunction/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चय-अव्यय (conjunction)

• upahṛte: having been removed
• upahṛte: Kāla (Temporal circumstance/काल)
• Type: Verb
• Root: upa-√hṛ (धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्यय (past passive participle), सप्तमी-एकवचन (locative absolute) agreeing with bhāre; ‘when (it was) removed’

• bhuvaḥ: of the earth
• bhuvaḥ: Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhū (प्रातिपदिक: bhū/ bhuvas)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; ‘of the earth’

• prabhāse: at Prabhāsa
• prabhāse: Adhikaraṇa (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prabhāsa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन (place-name)

• yādava-śreṣṭhaḥ: the best of the Yādavas
• yādava-śreṣṭhaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yādava (प्रातिपदिक) + śreṣṭha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन; ‘yādavānāṃ śreṣṭhaḥ’ (best of the Yādavas)

• sva-sthānam: his own abode
• sva-sthānam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sva (प्रातिपदिक) + sthāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; ‘own abode’

• agamat: went
• agamat: Kriyā (Main action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: gam (धातु)
• Form: लङ्-लकार (अनद्यतनभूत/Imperfect), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• hariḥ: Hari (Viṣṇu/Kṛṣṇa)
• hariḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: hari (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन (proper name)

Speaker

Ṛṣis (sages)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Prahlāda

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Somber coastal Prabhāsa: sages narrate the fall of the Yādavas; a distant vision of Hari departing toward a radiant path (svadhāma), while the earth’s burden symbolically lifts—darkness giving way to calm light.

Characters & Entities

• Ṛṣis
• Yadu-kula
• Hari
• Prabhāsa
• Yādava

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Bhagavān’s līlā concludes after restoring cosmic balance; His ‘departure’ signifies return to the transcendent abode.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa is explicitly named as the sacred locale connected with Hari’s concluding līlā.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No ritual is stated in this verse; it provides sacred-historical context for Prabhāsa’s sanctity.