Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 49

Devanagari script

दाहयामास तं विप्रं विधिदृष्टेन कर्मणा । स्नानं कृत्वा स शोकार्तो विललाप मुहुर्मुहुः

Transliteration

dāhayāmāsa taṃ vipraṃ vidhidṛṣṭena karmaṇā | snānaṃ kṛtvā sa śokārto vilalāpa muhurmuhuḥ

Translation

Ông hỏa táng vị Bà-la-môn ấy theo nghi thức được quy định; rồi tắm gội thanh tịnh, lòng đau buồn, ông than khóc hết lần này đến lần khác.

Word by Word

• dāhayāmāsa: caused to be burnt/cremated
• dāhayāmāsa: Kriya (Verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: dah (धातु)
• Form: णिच्-प्रयोजक (causative stem dāhaya-), लिट्-लकार (Perfect), परस्मैपद, प्रथम-पुरुष, एकवचन

• tam: him
• tam: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• vipram: the brāhmaṇa
• vipram: Karman (Object apposition/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vipra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• vidhidṛṣṭena: as prescribed by ritual rule
• vidhidṛṣṭena: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival to instrument/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vidhi + dṛṣṭa (प्रातिपदिके)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (विधिना दृष्टम् = prescribed by rule); नपुंसकलिङ्ग/पुंलिङ्ग-तृतीया एकवचन रूप (here agreeing with karmaṇā: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया, एकवचन); विशेषण

• karmaṇā: by the rite/act
• karmaṇā: Karaṇa (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: karman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental/3rd), एकवचन

• snānam: bathing
• snānam: Karman (Object of gerund/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: snāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• kṛtvā: having done
• kṛtvā: Pūrvakāla-kriyā (Gerundial/पूर्वकालक्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: kṛ (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्ययकृदन्त (gerund), पूर्वक्रिया

• saḥ: he
• saḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• śokārtaḥ: grief-stricken
• śokārtaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: śoka + ārta (प्रातिपदिके)
• Form: तत्पुरुष-समास (शोकेन आर्तः = afflicted with grief); पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; विशेषण (to saḥ)

• vilalāpa: lamented
• vilalāpa: Kriya (Verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vi-lap (धातु)
• Form: लिट्-लकार (Perfect), परस्मैपद, प्रथम-पुरुष, एकवचन

• muhuḥ: again and again
• muhuḥ: Kriya-viśeṣaṇa (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: muhuḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: पुनरावृत्तिवाचक-अव्यय (adverb)

• muhuḥ: repeatedly
• muhuḥ: Kriya-viśeṣaṇa (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: muhuḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: पुनरावृत्तिवाचक-अव्यय (reduplication for emphasis)

Speaker

Narrator (contextual)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā)

Type: ghat

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: In-text king (राजेन्द्र) and/or the frame audience

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A funeral pyre on the riverbank; Citraseṇa performs rites with controlled gestures; after cremation he enters the river for a purifying bath, then sits grieving, head bowed.

Characters & Entities

• Citraseṇa
• R̥kṣaśṛṅga

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Even amid grief, dharma requires completing the proper rites and purification, honoring the departed with prescribed conduct.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

No named tīrtha appears in this line, though Revā Khaṇḍa commonly frames rites and purity within sacred river geography.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Cremation according to vidhi (antyeṣṭi) and a subsequent snāna (ritual bath) for purification.