Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 33

Devanagari script

तिलोदकेन तत्रैव तर्पयेत्पितृदेवताः । आ सप्तमं कुलं तस्य स्वर्गे मोदति पाण्डव

Transliteration

tilodakena tatraiva tarpayetpitṛdevatāḥ | ā saptamaṃ kulaṃ tasya svarge modati pāṇḍava

Translation

Ngay tại đó, với nước hòa mè, người ấy nên dâng tarpaṇa để làm thỏa mãn các thần linh tổ tiên. Hỡi Pāṇḍava, đến bảy đời trong dòng tộc ấy đều hoan hỷ nơi thiên giới.

Word by Word

• tila-udakena: with sesame-water
• tila-udakena: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tila (प्रातिपदिक) + udaka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गः, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), एकवचनम्; तत्पुरुषः (तिलयुक्तम् उदकम्)

• tatra: there
• tatra: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatra (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक-अव्ययम्

• eva: indeed, just
• eva: Sambandha (Emphasis/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva (अव्यय)
• Form: अवधारणार्थक-निपातः (emphatic particle)

• tarpayet: should satisfy (offer libations to)
• tarpayet: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √tṛp (तृप्)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), परस्मैपदम्, प्रथमपुरुषः (3rd person), एकवचनम्; causative sense in ritual usage ‘to satisfy/offer’

• pitṛ-devatāḥ: the ancestral deities (pitṛs)
• pitṛ-devatāḥ: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pitṛ (प्रातिपदिक) + devatā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्गः, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), बहुवचनम्; तत्पुरुषः (पितर एव देवताः)

• ā: up to
• ā: Sambandha (Limit/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ā (अव्यय)
• Form: अवधि/पर्यन्तवाचक-अव्ययम् (preposition/adverb ‘up to’)

• saptamam: seventh
• saptamam: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: saptama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गः, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचनम्; क्रमवाचक-विशेषणम् (kulaṃ इति विशेष्ये)

• kulam: family line
• kulam: Karma (Extent/object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kula (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्गः, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचनम्

• tasya: of him
• tasya: Sambandha (Possessor/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गः/नपुंसकलिङ्गः, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचनम्; सर्वनाम

• svarge: in heaven
• svarge: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: svarga (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गः, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचनम्

• modati: rejoices
• modati: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √mud (मुद्)
• Form: लट्-लकारः (Present), आत्मनेपदम्, प्रथमपुरुषः (3rd person), एकवचनम्

• pāṇḍava: O Pāṇḍava
• pāṇḍava: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāṇḍava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गः, सम्बोधन (8th/Vocative), एकवचनम्

Speaker

Narrator (Skanda Purāṇa voice) addressing a Pāṇḍava interlocutor (likely Yudhiṣṭhira)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha (contextual)

Type: ghat

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Pāṇḍava

Visual Art Cues

Scene: At the ghat, the performer pours sesame-mixed water through fingers while chanting ‘svadhā’; subtle ancestral figures appear content in the background; the river glows with sanctity.

Characters & Entities

• Pitṛdevatās
• Pāṇḍava

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Ancestral gratitude (pitṛ-ṛṇa discharge) performed at a tīrtha yields expansive, lineage-wide spiritual benefit.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

A Revā-khaṇḍa tīrtha within the Narmadā (Revā) sacred landscape celebrated in the Skanda Purāṇa.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Pitṛ-tarpaṇa using tilodaka (water with sesame) offered to the Pitṛs.