Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 29

Devanagari script

यानि कानि च पापानि ब्रह्महत्यासमानि च । कृष्णजागरणे तानि क्षयं यांति न संशयः

Transliteration

yāni kāni ca pāpāni brahmahatyāsamāni ca | kṛṣṇajāgaraṇe tāni kṣayaṃ yāṃti na saṃśayaḥ

Translation

جو بھی گناہ ہوں—حتیٰ کہ برہماہتیا کے برابر بھی—کِرشن کے جاگَرَن میں وہ یقیناً مٹ جاتے ہیں؛ اس میں کوئی شک نہیں۔

Word by Word

• यानि: which (things)
• यानि: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (relative pronoun), नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), बहुवचन (Plural)

• कानि: any
• कानि: विशेषण (Indefinite qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: किम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (interrogative/indefinite), नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), बहुवचन (Plural)

• च: and
• च: सम्बन्ध (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (conjunction)

• पापानि: sins
• पापानि: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), बहुवचन (Plural)

• ब्रह्महत्या-समानि: equal to brahma-hatya (killing a Brahmin)
• ब्रह्महत्या-समानि: विशेषण (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ब्रह्महत्या (प्रातिपदिक; ब्रह्मन् + हत्या) + समान (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास: ब्रह्महत्यायाः समानि; नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), बहुवचन (Plural)

• च: and
• च: सम्बन्ध (Connector/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (conjunction)

• कृष्ण-जागरणे: in the vigil for Kṛṣṇa
• कृष्ण-जागरणे: अधिकरण (Occasion/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृष्ण (प्रातिपदिक) + जागरण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास: कृष्णस्य जागरणे (Kṛṣṇa-vigil); नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), सप्तमी-विभक्ति (Locative/7th), एकवचन (Singular)

• तानि: those
• तानि: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (pronoun), नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), बहुवचन (Plural)

• क्षयम्: destruction; end
• क्षयम्: कर्म (Object/Result/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative/2nd), एकवचन (Singular)

• यान्ति: go to; reach
• यान्ति: क्रिया (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √या (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), परस्मैपदम्, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन (Plural)

• न: no; not
• न: निषेध (Negation/निषेध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (negation particle)

• संशयः: doubt
• संशयः: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: संशय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन (Singular)

Speaker

An unnamed Purāṇic narrator within Dvārakā Māhātmya

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kṛṣṇa-jāgara (Dvārakā)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: King (bhūpāla)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Devotees keep vigil before Kṛṣṇa; dark smoke-like forms symbolizing sins dissolve into light, emphasizing destruction of even brahmahatyā-like guilt.

Characters & Entities

• Kṛṣṇa
• Brahmahatyā

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Kṛṣṇa-jāgaraṇa is praised as a powerful purificatory act capable of exhausting even the gravest sins.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Dvārakā, where Kṛṣṇa’s vigil is celebrated as sin-destroying.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Observe Kṛṣṇa-jāgaraṇa as a prāyaścitta-like devotional discipline for purification.