Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 9

Devanagari script

इत्युक्तास्ते तदा देवि विप्रलंभप्रधर्षिताः । प्रत्यब्रुवंस्तान्मुनयस्तच्छृणुष्व यथातथम्

Transliteration

ityuktāste tadā devi vipralaṃbhapradharṣitāḥ | pratyabruvaṃstānmunayastacchṛṇuṣva yathātatham

Translation

Ô Nữ Thần, khi bị nói như thế và bị khiêu khích bởi sự nhạo báng, sỉ nhục, các bậc hiền triết liền đáp lại họ. Hãy lắng nghe, đúng như sự việc đã xảy ra.

Word by Word

• iti: thus
• iti: Sambandha (Quotation marker/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: iti (अव्यय)
• Form: उद्धरण/इति-निपात (quotative particle)

• uktāḥ: having been spoken to / addressed
• uktāḥ: Karta (Subject qualifier/कर्ता-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vac (धातु) → ukta (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (PPP), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), बहुवचन

• te: they
• te: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), बहुवचन; सर्वनाम

• tadā: then
• tadā: Sambandha (Time/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tadā (अव्यय)
• Form: कालवाचक-अव्यय (temporal adverb)

• devi: O goddess
• devi: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: devī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन-विभक्ति (Vocative), एकवचन

• vipralaṃbha-pradharṣitāḥ: insulted/affronted by deception
• vipralaṃbha-pradharṣitāḥ: Karta (Subject qualifier/कर्ता-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: vipralaṃbha (प्रातिपदिक) + pra-dharṣita (कृदन्त)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), बहुवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (PPP); तत्पुरुष-समास (विप्रलम्भेन प्रधर्षिताः)

• pratyabruvan: they replied
• pratyabruvan: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: brū (धातु)
• Form: लङ्-लकार (Imperfect), परस्मैपद, प्रथम-पुरुष, बहुवचन; उपसर्गः प्रति- (prati-)

• tān: to them / those (people)
• tān: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), बहुवचन; सर्वनाम

• munayaḥ: the sages
• munayaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: muni (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative), बहुवचन

• tat: that (reply)
• tat: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• śṛṇuṣva: listen
• śṛṇuṣva: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: śru (धातु)
• Form: लोट्-लकार (Imperative), आत्मनेपद, मध्यम-पुरुष, एकवचन

• yathā-tatham: exactly as it is / truly
• yathā-tatham: Sambandha (Manner/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yathā (अव्यय) + tathā (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय-द्वन्द्व (indeclinable copulative), क्रियाविशेषण

Speaker

Narrator (within Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya frame)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Devī addressed (as per vocative) and the gathered party

Visual Art Cues

Scene: The sages, stung by insult, shift from silence to solemn speech; their faces harden with tapas-born authority as they prepare to narrate the truth.

Characters & Entities

• Devī
• Munis (sages)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Deriding holy sages invites grave karmic consequences; humility before dharma protects one’s lineage.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra, the famed pilgrimage region where decisive Purāṇic events unfold.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None in this verse; it transitions into the sages’ pronouncement.