Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 2

Devanagari script

नारद उवाच । एतत्ते सर्वमाख्यातं राजन्कुष्ठस्य कारणम् । दारिद्र्यस्य च यत्सम्यग्ज्ञात्वा दिव्येन चक्षुषा

Transliteration

nārada uvāca | etatte sarvamākhyātaṃ rājankuṣṭhasya kāraṇam | dāridryasya ca yatsamyagjñātvā divyena cakṣuṣā

Translation

Nārada thưa: Tâu Đại vương, tất cả điều ấy ta đã thuật rõ cho ngài—nguyên nhân của bệnh cùi và của cảnh bần cùng—do đã quán triệt đúng đắn bằng thiên nhãn.

Word by Word

• nāradaḥ: Nārada
• nāradaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nārada (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; वक्ता

• uvāca: said
• uvāca: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vac (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• etat: this
• etat: Karma (Object complement/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: etat (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• te: to you/for you
• te: Sampradana (Recipient/सम्प्रदान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th) एकवचन (enclitic); ‘of/for you’ (genitive/dative sense in context)

• sarvam: all
• sarvam: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; विशेषणम् (qualifying etat)

• ākhyātam: has been explained
• ākhyātam: Kriya (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: ā-khyā (धातु)
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन; कर्मणि-प्रयोगे ‘has been told’

• rājan: O king
• rājan: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: rājan (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative/सम्बोधन), एकवचन

• kuṣṭhasya: of leprosy
• kuṣṭhasya: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kuṣṭha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), एकवचन; सम्बन्ध

• kāraṇam: cause
• kāraṇam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kāraṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; here as predicate-noun/object in apposition

• dāridryasya: of poverty
• dāridryasya: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dāridrya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), एकवचन; सम्बन्ध

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

• yat: which
• yat: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yat (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; सम्बन्धक (relative pronoun)

• samyak: properly
• samyak: Sambandha (Adverbial/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: samyak (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (adverb): सम्यक् (properly)

• jñātvā: having known
• jñātvā: Kriya (Prior action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: jñā (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund), अव्ययभाव; पूर्वक्रिया

• divyena: with divine
• divyena: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: divya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग/पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/तृतीया), एकवचन; करण (instrumental)

• cakṣuṣā: eye/vision
• cakṣuṣā: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: cakṣus (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd), एकवचन; करण

Speaker

Nārada

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (contextual)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: King (rājan)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Nārada addresses the king directly, eyes luminous with divya-dṛṣṭi; the king listens as the sage summarizes the already-revealed causes of leprosy and poverty.

Characters & Entities

• Nārada
• King (unnamed)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Suffering is framed as intelligible within dharma: sages diagnose causes through spiritual insight to guide correction.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The setting remains within the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra-māhātmya narrative stream, though the verse focuses on moral causation.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None explicitly; it introduces a completed diagnosis that will support subsequent prescriptions (prāyaścitta/dāna/vrata) in context.