Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 22

Devanagari script

गताश्च वणिजः सर्वे यथास्थानं सुदुःखिताः । स दैत्यो घातितो राम देवैः सुरभयंकरः

Transliteration

gatāśca vaṇijaḥ sarve yathāsthānaṃ suduḥkhitāḥ | sa daityo ghātito rāma devaiḥ surabhayaṃkaraḥ

Translation

Tất cả các thương nhân cũng đã trở về nơi chốn của mình, lòng đầy sầu khổ. Hỡi Rāma, tên Daitya ấy—kẻ khiến cả chư thiên cũng kinh hãi—đã bị các Deva giết diệt.

Word by Word

• gatāḥ: gone, departed
• gatāḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता) (with implied copula)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √gam (धातु) → gata (कृदन्त/प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; past passive participle used adjectivally

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha/Connector (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक अव्यय (conjunction)

• vaṇijaḥ: merchants
• vaṇijaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vaṇij (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन

• sarve: all
• sarve: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival modifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; विशेषण (qualifier)

• yathāsthānam: to their respective places / in proper place
• yathāsthānam: Adhikaraṇa (Locative sense/अधिकरण) (adverbial)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yathā + sthāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्ययीभावसमास; अव्ययवत् प्रयोगः (adverbial)

• suduḥkhitāḥ: very distressed
• suduḥkhitāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival modifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: su + duḥkhita (प्रातिपदिक; √duḥkh/duḥkha + ita)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; विशेषण

• saḥ: he
• saḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• daityaḥ: the demon
• daityaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता) (apposition to saḥ)
• Type: Noun
• Root: daitya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन

• ghātitaḥ: slain, killed
• ghātitaḥ: Karma (Object/कर्म) (in passive construction)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √han (धातु) → ghātita (कृदन्त/प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (णिच् causative + क्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; past passive participle

• rāma: O Rama
• rāma: Sambodhana (Vocative/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: rāma (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th), एकवचन

• devaiḥ: by the gods
• devaiḥ: Karana / Agent in passive (करण/कर्तृ)
• Type: Noun
• Root: deva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd), बहुवचन; करण/कर्तृ-निर्देश (agent in passive)

• surabhayaṃkaraḥ: terror-causing to the gods
• surabhayaṃkaraḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjectival modifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sura + bhayaṃkara (प्रातिपदिक: bhaya + √kṛ (धातु) → kara)
• Form: तत्पुरुषसमास (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष: surāṇāṃ bhayaṃkaraḥ); पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; विशेषण (of daityaḥ)

Speaker

Dharmāraṇya-kṣetra Adhidevatā (the presiding deity of Dharmāraṇya)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Dīrghikā (sacred tank) of the locale (name not specified in given verses)

Type: kund

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Rāma

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A desolate trade-route and abandoned settlement; merchants departing with downcast faces; in the background, devas’ victory over a fearsome daitya is implied rather than shown—smoke of battle fading, weapons lowered.

Characters & Entities

• Rāma
• Daitya
• Devas
• Merchants (Vaṇijaḥ)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Adharma disrupts both spiritual and social life; divine victory is a precondition for the return of prosperity and worship.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Dharmāraṇya-kṣetra, shown affecting even merchants and settlement patterns.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; it narrates the consequences of fear and the slaying of the daitya.