Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 65

Devanagari script

यत्किञ्चिदशुभं कर्म कृतं मानुषबुद्धिना । तत्सर्वं विलयं याति श्रीसोमेश्वरपूजनात्

Transliteration

yatkiñcidaśubhaṃ karma kṛtaṃ mānuṣabuddhinā | tatsarvaṃ vilayaṃ yāti śrīsomeśvarapūjanāt

Translation

Bất cứ nghiệp bất tường nào do trí xét đoán phàm nhân đã làm—tất thảy đều tiêu tan nhờ sự thờ phụng Śrī Someśvara.

Word by Word

• yat: whatever
• yat: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; सम्बन्धवाचक सर्वनाम (relative)

• kiñcit: anything / some
• kiñcit: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kim (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) + cit (अव्यय-प्रत्यय)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; अनिश्चितार्थक सर्वनाम (indefinite)

• aśubham: inauspicious / evil
• aśubham: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: aśubha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेषण

• karma: deed / action
• karma: Karman (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: karman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• kṛtam: done
• kṛtam: Kriya (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: kṛ (धातु) → kṛta (कृदन्त)
• Form: कृदन्त—क्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘कृतं’ = ‘done’

• mānuṣa-buddhinā: with human understanding
• mānuṣa-buddhinā: Karana (Instrument/Means/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mānuṣa (प्रातिपदिक) + buddhi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; समासः—कर्मधारय/तत्पुरुष (mānuṣī buddhiḥ = mānuṣabuddhiḥ)

• tat: that
• tat: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• sarvam: all
• sarvam: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; विशेषण

• vilayam: destruction / dissolution
• vilayam: Gati (Goal/गति)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vilaya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन

• yāti: goes / comes to
• yāti: Kriya (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √yā (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद

• śrī-someśvara-pūjanāt: from the worship of Śrī Someśvara
• śrī-someśvara-pūjanāt: Hetu (Cause/Reason/हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śrī (प्रातिपदिक) + someśvara (प्रातिपदिक) + pūjana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी-विभक्ति, एकवचन; समासः—षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (someśvarasya pūjanam), ‘śrī’ उपपद-पूर्वपद

Speaker

Śiva (deduced)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Śrī Someśvara (Somnātha) at Prabhāsa

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A pilgrim offers bilva leaves, water, and lamps before the Somnātha liṅga; a dark mist of ‘aśubha’ dissolves into light radiating from the shrine, while the sea-wind and conch-sound frame the coastal kṣetra.

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Someśvara
• Karma

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Devotional worship at a great tīrtha is proclaimed as a powerful purifier that dissolves accumulated inauspicious karma.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Śrī Someśvara at Prabhāsa-kṣetra.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Śrī Someśvara-pūjā (worship of Someśvara) as a purificatory act akin to prāyaścitta.