Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 7

Devanagari script

ओङ्कारतीर्थमारभ्य यावत्पश्चिमसागरम् । संगमाः पञ्चत्रिंशद्वै नदीनां पापनाशनाः

Transliteration

oṅkāratīrthamārabhya yāvatpaścimasāgaram | saṃgamāḥ pañcatriṃśadvai nadīnāṃ pāpanāśanāḥ

Translation

Từ Oṅkāra-tīrtha cho đến tận Đại dương phương Tây, quả có ba mươi lăm nơi hợp lưu (saṅgama) của các dòng sông, có năng lực tiêu trừ tội lỗi.

Word by Word

• oṅkāra: Oṅkāra
• oṅkāra: Apādāna (Source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: oṅkāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, समासाङ्ग

• tīrtham: from Oṅkāra-tīrtha
• tīrtham: Apādāna (Source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tīrtha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/पञ्चमी), एकवचन (आभ्यर्थे/अपादाने); oṅkāra+tīrtham इति तत्पुरुषः (Oṅkāra-tīrtha)

• ārabhya: starting from
• ārabhya: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ā√rabh (धातु) → ārabhya (कृदन्त-अव्यय)
• Form: क्त्वान्त/ल्यप्-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (gerund), ‘आरभ्य’ = starting from

• yāvat: up to
• yāvat: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (Limit/पर्यन्त)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yāvat (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (limit marker), ‘up to/as far as’

• paścima: western
• paścima: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: paścima (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन; सागरम् विशेषयति

• sāgaram: ocean
• sāgaram: Karma (Goal/कर्म-पर्यन्त)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sāgara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन; पर्यन्त-सीमा (goal/limit)

• saṃgamāḥ: confluences
• saṃgamāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃgama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), बहुवचन

• pañcatriṃśat: thirty-five
• pañcatriṃśat: Viśeṣaṇa (Numeral qualifier/संख्या-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: pañcatriṃśat (संख्याप्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्ययवत् संख्याशब्दः; प्रथमा बहुवचनार्थे (agreeing with saṃgamāḥ); पञ्च+त्रिंशत् इति संख्यासमाहार (35)

• vai: indeed
• vai: Sambandha (Discourse particle/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: vai (अव्यय)
• Form: निपात (particle), अव्यय; एव/खलु-भावे (indeed)

• nadīnām: of rivers
• nadīnām: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nadī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/षष्ठी), बहुवचन

• pāpa: sin
• pāpa: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāpa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, समासाङ्ग

• nāśanāḥ: destroyers (of sin)
• nāśanāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: nāśana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), बहुवचन; pāpa+nāśanāḥ इति तत्पुरुषः (sin-destroying)

Speaker

Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced: Āvantya Khaṇḍa narration style)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Oṅkāra-tīrtha to Paścima-sāgara saṅgama-mālā

Type: sangam

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Ṛṣis / dvija-śreṣṭhas

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A map-like panorama: Revā flowing from a central shrine at Oṅkāra-tīrtha, marked by many tributary confluences, finally meeting the vast western ocean; each saṅgama glows as a sacred node.

Characters & Entities

• Oṅkāra-tīrtha
• Paścima-sāgara (Western Ocean)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Pilgrimage to sacred confluences is praised as a potent means of pāpa-kṣaya (dissolution of sin) through contact with sanctified waters and dharmic remembrance.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Oṅkāra-tīrtha is given as the starting landmark, with the sacred route extending to the Western Ocean, framing the Revā/Narmadā sacred landscape.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No specific rite is stated here; the verse generally extols saṅgama-darśana and implied snāna (holy bathing) as sin-destroying.