Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 46

Devanagari script

तस्मादिमे पुण्यतमे नद्यौ देवनमस्कृते । एतयोः स्नानमात्रेण ब्रह्महत्यां व्यपोहति

Transliteration

tasmādime puṇyatame nadyau devanamaskṛte | etayoḥ snānamātreṇa brahmahatyāṃ vyapohati

Translation

Vì thế, hai dòng sông này là tối thánh, hỡi bậc được chư thiên kính lễ; chỉ cần tắm trong đó thôi cũng có thể xua tan cả tội nặng như sát hại Bà-la-môn.

Word by Word

• तस्मात्: therefore
• तस्मात्: Sambandha/Hetu (Logical connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय; तस्मात् = ‘therefore/from that’ (प्रयोगे हेत्वर्थ/निदर्शन)

• इमे: these
• इमे: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; सर्वनाम; ‘these’ (qualifying rivers)

• पुण्यतमे: most holy
• पुण्यतमे: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पुण्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन; तमप्-प्रत्यय (superlative)

• नद्यौ: two rivers
• नद्यौ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नदी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), द्विवचन

• देव-नमस्कृते: saluted by the gods
• देव-नमस्कृते: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: देव-नमस्कृत (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), द्विवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुषः (देवैः नमस्कृते = saluted by the gods)

• एतयोः: of these two
• एतयोः: Shashthi-Sambandha (Genitive relation/षष्ठी)
• Type: Noun
• Root: एतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th), द्विवचन; सर्वनाम

• स्नान-मात्रेण: by mere bathing
• स्नान-मात्रेण: Karana (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्नान-मात्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/करण), एकवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुषः (स्नानस्य मात्रम् = mere bathing)

• ब्रह्म-हत्याम्: the sin of brahmahatyā
• ब्रह्म-हत्याम्: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्रह्म-हत्या (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/कर्म), एकवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुषः (ब्रह्मणः हत्या = brahmin-slaying, brahmahatyā sin)

• व्यपोहति: removes/drives away
• व्यपोहति: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि-अप-√ऊह्/√वह् (धातु; व्यपोहन)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; परस्मैपद

Speaker

Narrator (contextual, Vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍa—Ayodhyāmāhātmya; speaker not explicit in the snippet)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Ayodhyā-nadī-tīrthas (Sarayū and associated companion stream/sangam in local tradition)

Type: sangam

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: deva-namaskṛta (addressed revered interlocutor)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Two luminous rivers at Ayodhyā, their waters shimmering with sanctity; pilgrims descend broad ghats, offering arghya as divine beings invisibly honor the stream; the idea of sin dissolving is shown as dark mist lifting from the bather.

Characters & Entities

• Sarayū
• Jāhnavī (Gaṅgā)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Contact with a supremely sanctified tīrtha—especially through snāna—has extraordinary purificatory power in Purāṇic dharma.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The two sacred rivers identified in context as Jāhnavī (Gaṅgā) and Sarayū, with emphasis on Sarayū at Ayodhyā.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Snāna (ritual bathing) in these rivers is said to remove even brahmahatyā-doṣa.