Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 1

Devanagari script

ईश्वर उवाच । ततो गच्छेन्महादेवि आदिनारायणं हरिम् । तस्याश्च पूर्वदिग्भागे सर्वपातकनाशनम्

Transliteration

īśvara uvāca | tato gacchenmahādevi ādinārāyaṇaṃ harim | tasyāśca pūrvadigbhāge sarvapātakanāśanam

Translation

Īśvara phán: Bấy giờ, hỡi Đại Nữ Thần, nên đi đến Ādinārāyaṇa, tức Hari. Và về phía đông giáp với nơi ấy có một chốn tiêu trừ mọi tội lỗi.

Word by Word

• īśvaraḥ: Īśvara
• īśvaraḥ: Karta (Speaker/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: īśvara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन

• uvāca: said
• uvāca: Kriya (Main verb/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √vac (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (परोक्षभूत/Perfect), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन

• tataḥ: then
• tataḥ: Sambandha (Adverbial/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tataḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; ततो-शब्दः (adverb: ‘then/from there’)

• gacchet: should go
• gacchet: Kriya (Injunctive/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √gam (धातु)
• Form: लोट्/विधिलिङ् (आज्ञार्थ/विध्यर्थ; context: injunction), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन; ‘let (one) go’

• mahādevi: O great goddess
• mahādevi: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mahā + devī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th), एकवचन; कर्मधारयः (महती देवी)

• ādi-nārāyaṇam: Ādi-Nārāyaṇa
• ādi-nārāyaṇam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ādi + nārāyaṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; कर्मधारयः (आदिः नारायणः)

• harim: Hari (Viṣṇu)
• harim: Karma (Appositional object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: hari (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; ‘हरि’ विष्णुनाम

• tasyāḥ: of it/of that (place)
• tasyāḥ: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

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

• pūrva-dik-bhāge: in the eastern part/direction
• pūrva-dik-bhāge: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pūrva + diś + bhāga (प्रातिपदिकसमूह)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th), एकवचन; तत्पुरुषः (पूर्वायां दिशि भागः)

• sarva-pātaka-nāśanam: (a place) that destroys all sins
• sarva-pātaka-nāśanam: Karma (Object complement/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sarva + pātaka + nāśana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st)/द्वितीया (2nd), एकवचन; तत्पुरुषः (सर्वपातकानां नाशनम्); अत्र विशेष्य-लोपे स्थानवाचकं (a place that destroys sins)

Speaker

Śiva (Īśvara)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Ādinārāyaṇa (within Prabhāsa-kṣetra) and an eastern pāpa-nāśaka spot

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Mahādevī (Devī/Pārvatī)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Śiva (Īśvara) instructs Devī on a pilgrimage route: pointing toward a shrine of Ādinārāyaṇa; to the east, a luminous patch of ground/water signifying ‘sarva-pātaka-nāśana’.

Characters & Entities

• Śiva (Īśvara)
• Mahādevī
• Ādinārāyaṇa
• Hari
• Prabhāsa-kṣetra

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Sacred geography is a dharmic map: moving from shrine to shrine with reverence is presented as a path of purification.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Ādinārāyaṇa (Hari) at Prabhāsa-kṣetra, with an additional sin-destroying spot to its east.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Going (gacchet) to the shrine—i.e., undertaking a local tīrtha-yātrā within Prabhāsa-kṣetra.