Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 25

Devanagari script

सप्तम्यां रविवारेण यस्त्वां पश्यति मानवः । तस्य रोग भयं माऽस्तु प्रसादात्तिमिरापह

Transliteration

saptamyāṃ ravivāreṇa yastvāṃ paśyati mānavaḥ | tasya roga bhayaṃ mā'stu prasādāttimirāpaha

Translation

سپتمی کے دن، اتوار کو، جو انسان آپ کے درشن کرے—اے تاریکی دور کرنے والے—آپ کی کرپا سے اس کے لیے بیماری کا کوئی خوف نہ رہے۔

Word by Word

• saptamyām: on the seventh (lunar day)
• saptamyām: Adhikarana (Time/काल-अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saptamī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; तिथिवाचक

• ravi-vāreṇa: on Sunday
• ravi-vāreṇa: Adhikarana (Time/काल-निर्देश)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ravi (प्रातिपदिक) + vāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (रवेः वारः = Sunday)

• yaḥ: who
• yaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• tvām: you
• tvām: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन

• paśyati: sees
• paśyati: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: dṛś (दृश् धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन

• mānavaḥ: a human
• mānavaḥ: Karta (Subject apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mānava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• tasya: of him
• tasya: Sambandha (Genitive)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन

• roga-bhayam: fear of disease
• roga-bhayam: Karta (Subject of astu)
• Type: Noun
• Root: roga (प्रातिपदिक) + bhaya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (रोगस्य भयम् = fear of disease / disease-fear)

• mā: do not; let not
• mā: Pratiṣedha (Negation)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: mā (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निषेधार्थक-निपात (prohibitive particle)

• astu: be
• astu: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: as (अस् धातु)
• Form: लोट् (Imperative), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन

• prasādāt: by grace
• prasādāt: Hetu (Cause/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prasāda (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/Ablative), एकवचन

• timira-apaha: O remover of darkness
• timira-apaha: Sambodhana (Address)
• Type: Noun
• Root: timira (प्रातिपदिक) + apaha (अपह प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (तिमिरं अपहन्ति इति = remover of darkness)

Speaker

Sūrya (as the boon/result being voiced in context)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Āditya-darśana at Prabhāsa (Sunday-Saptamī)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Sūrya (and by extension the audience of the māhātmya)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee stands at dawn facing the rising sun on a Sunday Saptamī, hands raised in arghya; rays stream like golden threads, symbolically removing ‘timira’ and disease-fear.

Characters & Entities

• Sūrya
• Ravivāra
• Saptamī

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Right-time devotion (darśana on an auspicious tithi and weekday) is portrayed as yielding protective grace.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Within Prabhāsakṣetra’s narrative frame, Sūrya-darśana is celebrated as a merit-bearing act connected to the kṣetra.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Beholding (darśana) of Sūrya on Saptamī that falls on Ravivāra (Sunday) for freedom from fear of disease.