Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 26

Devanagari script

सत्वरं गत्वरं सर्वं यच्चैतद्भवतेक्षितम् । दैनंदिनप्रलयतः सृजामि च पुनः पुनः

Transliteration

satvaraṃ gatvaraṃ sarvaṃ yaccaitadbhavatekṣitam | dainaṃdinapralayataḥ sṛjāmi ca punaḥ punaḥ

Translation

“Tất cả những gì ngươi thấy đều chóng qua và hoại diệt. Từ cuộc pralaya hằng ngày, Ta lại tạo dựng chúng hết lần này đến lần khác.”

Word by Word

• sa-tvaram: quickly, hastily
• sa-tvaram: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: sa (सह/सम् उपसर्गवत्) + tvara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्ययीभावसमासः; क्रियाविशेषणम् (adverb) “सत्वरम्” = त्वरया सह (with haste)

• gatvaram: transient, perishable
• gatvaram: Visheshana (Adjective of sarvam/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: gatvara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; विशेषण (perishable/going away)

• sarvam: everything
• sarvam: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन

• yat: which
• yat: Sambandha (Relative/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; सम्बन्ध-सर्वनाम (relative pronoun)

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (Conjunction/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयार्थक-अव्ययम् (conjunction)

• etat: this
• etat: Karman (Apposition to yat/sarvam)
• Type: Noun
• Root: etad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• bhavatā: by you
• bhavatā: Kartr/Agent (Agent of seeing/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhavat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd), एकवचन; आदरार्थ-प्रातिपदिक (honorific ‘you’)

• īkṣitam: seen
• īkṣitam: Karman (Object as participial predicate/कर्म)
• Type: Verb
• Root: īkṣ (ईक्ष् धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; “seen”

• dainaṃdina-pralayataḥ: from the daily dissolution
• dainaṃdina-pralayataḥ: Apadana/Hetu (Source/Cause/अपादान/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dina (प्रातिपदिक) + dina (प्रातिपदिक) + pralaya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th), एकवचन; तत्पुरुषः—“दैनंदिनः प्रलयः” (daily dissolution) + तसिल्/तः (ablative)

• sṛjāmi: I create
• sṛjāmi: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: sṛj (सृज् धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), परस्मैपद, उत्तमपुरुष (1st), एकवचन

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (Conjunction/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयार्थक-अव्ययम् (conjunction)

• punaḥ: again
• punaḥ: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: punaḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: कालवाचक-अव्ययम् (adverb of repetition)

• punaḥ: again and again
• punaḥ: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: punaḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: पुनरुक्ति-बलार्थम् (repetition for emphasis)

Speaker

Brahmā

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (contextual teaching for pilgrims)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Śivaśarman (and gaṇas as witnesses)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Brahmā explains that everything seen is swiftly perishing; from daily dissolution he recreates the worlds again and again—cosmic cycles shown as dissolving and re-forming mandalas.

Characters & Entities

• Brahmā
• Pralaya

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Recognize impermanence: the world is transient and cyclic; this insight supports vairāgya (detachment) and pursuit of the imperishable.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Not directly named in this verse, but it occurs within the Kāśī-khaṇḍa’s exaltation of Kāśī as a liberating sacred landscape.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; it is a cosmological and philosophical instruction.