Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 12

Devanagari script

इति ते कथितं सम्यक्चतुर्दशायतनं प्रिये । विघ्नेश्वरं समारभ्य यावत्केतुप्रतिष्ठितम्

Transliteration

iti te kathitaṃ samyakcaturdaśāyatanaṃ priye | vighneśvaraṃ samārabhya yāvatketupratiṣṭhitam

Translation

یوں اے محبوبہ! چودہ آیتنوں کا بیان تمہیں درست طور پر سنا دیا گیا—وِگھنےشور سے لے کر اُس آستان تک جہاں کیتو قائم ہے۔

Word by Word

• इति: thus
• इति: Sambandha (Discourse marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; वाक्यसमाप्तिसूचक/उद्धरणसूचक (indeclinable; quotative/thus)

• ते: to you
• ते: Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्वद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम; षष्ठी/चतुर्थी? एकवचन; यहाँ चतुर्थी एकवचन (to you) (Pronoun; Dative 4th, Singular)

• कथितम्: told
• कथितम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Verb
• Root: कथ् (धातु) + क्त (कृदन्त)
• Form: भूतकर्मणि कृदन्त (past passive participle); नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; कर्मणि प्रयोगे ‘कथितम्’ = ‘has been told’

• सम्यक्: properly, correctly
• सम्यक्: Kriya-vishesana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सम्यक् (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; क्रियाविशेषण (adverb)

• चतुर्दशायतनम्: the fourteen abodes/shrines
• चतुर्दशायतनम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: चतुर्दश (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक) + आयतन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (संख्यापूर्वपद); नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन (accusative singular)

• प्रिये: O beloved
• प्रिये: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रिय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सम्बोधन; स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन, एकवचन (Vocative singular)

• विघ्नेश्वरम्: Vighneśvara (Lord of obstacles)
• विघ्नेश्वरम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: विघ्न (प्रातिपदिक) + ईश्वर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास; पुल्लिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• समारभ्य: starting from
• समारभ्य: Apadana/Avadhi (Starting point/अवधि)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सम् + आ + रभ् (धातु) + ल्यप् (अव्ययीभाव/क्त्वान्त)
• Form: क्त्वान्त/ल्यबन्त अव्यय (gerund); ‘having begun/starting from’

• यावत्: up to
• यावत्: Avadhi (Limit/अवधि)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यावत् (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; अवधिसूचक (up to/as far as)

• केतुप्रतिष्ठितम्: (ending) with Ketu-established (shrine)
• केतुप्रतिष्ठितम्: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: केतु (प्रातिपदिक) + प्रतिष्ठित (स्था धातु + प्रति + क्त)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास; नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘केतु-प्रतिष्ठित’ = ‘established at/with Ketu’ (qualifying the series/āyatana)

Speaker

Unknown (narrative voice addressing a Devī as 'priye')

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Caturdaśāyatana (Fourteen sanctuaries) of Prabhāsa

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A schematic yet sacred ‘map’ of Prabhāsa showing fourteen shrines connected by a pilgrim path; first shrine marked Vighneśvara, last marked Ketu; pilgrims move in an orderly line.

Characters & Entities

• Vighneśvara
• Ketu

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Pilgrimage is structured: sacred geography is taught as a disciplined sequence of darśanas culminating in graha-śānti.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa Kṣetra, through its caturdaśāyatana (fourteen-shrine) circuit.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Following the shrine-sequence beginning with Vighneśvara and ending at Ketu’s installation.