Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 56

Devanagari script

तत्र सिद्धवटंनाम तीर्थं पैतामहं स्मृतम् । वटेश्वरस्य पुरतः सर्वपापक्षयंकरम्

Transliteration

tatra siddhavaṭaṃnāma tīrthaṃ paitāmahaṃ smṛtam | vaṭeśvarasya purataḥ sarvapāpakṣayaṃkaram

Translation

وہاں ‘سدھ وٹ’ نام کا ایک تیرتھ ہے، جو ‘پَیتامہ’ (پِتامہ برہما سے منسوب) کے نام سے یاد کیا جاتا ہے۔ یہ وٹیشور کے سامنے واقع ہے اور سب گناہوں کا نِسْتار کرتا ہے۔

Word by Word

• tatra: there
• tatra: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय (देशवाचक) — 'there'

• siddha-vaṭam-nāma: named “Siddhavaṭa”
• siddha-vaṭam-nāma: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: siddha (कृदन्त/प्रातिपदिक) + vaṭa (प्रातिपदिक) + nāman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: समास: सिद्धवट (कर्मधारय/तत्पुरुष-प्राय) + नाम (नाम-शब्देन सह बहुप्रचलितः 'X-nāma'); नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; 'named'

• tīrtham: a sacred ford/pilgrimage place
• tīrtham: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tīrtha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• paitāmaham: of Pitāmaha (Brahmā), ancestral
• paitāmaham: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: paitāmaha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; विशेषण (belonging to Pitāmaha/Brahmā; ancestral)

• smṛtam: is known/remembered (as)
• smṛtam: Kriya (Predicative/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: smṛ (धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; कर्मणि प्रयोगे 'is called/remembered'

• vaṭeśvarasya: of Vaṭeśvara
• vaṭeśvarasya: Shashthi-Sambandha (Genitive relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vaṭeśvara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी-विभक्ति (सम्बन्ध), एकवचन

• purataḥ: in front of
• purataḥ: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: puratas (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय (देशवाचक) — 'in front of'

• sarva-pāpa-kṣayaṃkaram: causing the destruction of all sins
• sarva-pāpa-kṣayaṃkaram: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक) + pāpa (प्रातिपदिक) + kṣaya (प्रातिपदिक) + kara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: समास: सर्वपाप (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष) + क्षयङ्कर (उपपद-तत्पुरुष: 'kṣayaṃ karoti'); नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; विशेषण

Speaker

Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Siddhavaṭa

Type: kund

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A vast banyan named Siddhavaṭa stands beside/near a Śiva shrine of Vaṭeśvara; pilgrims bathe and worship, the air thick with sanctity, the place proclaimed ‘all-sin-destroying’.

Characters & Entities

• Siddhavaṭa-tīrtha
• Pitāmaha (Brahmā)
• Vaṭeśvara

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Prabhāsa tīrthas are presented as powerful purifiers: proximity to a consecrated site (Vaṭeśvara) and its tīrtha is said to dissolve accumulated sin.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Siddhavaṭa-tīrtha, located before Vaṭeśvara, and characterized as ‘Paitāmaha’ (connected with Brahmā).

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No explicit act is detailed in this verse, but the standard implied tīrtha-practice is darśana and snāna associated with sin-removal.