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Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 16

Devanagari script

सप्तजन्मार्जितात्पापात्ते पूता नात्र संशयः । पृथिव्यां यानि लिंगानि तेषु दृष्टेषु यत्फलम्

Transliteration

saptajanmārjitātpāpātte pūtā nātra saṃśayaḥ | pṛthivyāṃ yāni liṃgāni teṣu dṛṣṭeṣu yatphalam

Translation

他们从七生所积之罪得以净除——毫无疑问。凡在大地上瞻礼一切林伽所得之果报，于此处皆可获得。

Word by Word
सप्तजन्मार्जितात्from (sin) accumulated over seven births
सप्तजन्मार्जितात्:
Hetu/Apādāna (Cause/Source)
TypeAdjective
Rootसप्त (प्रातिपदिक) + जन्म (प्रातिपदिक) + अर्जित (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
Formतत्पुरुष-समास (सप्तजन्मसु अर्जितम्) → सप्तजन्मार्जित; नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/Ablative), एकवचन; विशेषणम् (पापात्)
पापात्from sin
पापात्:
Apādāna (Source/अपादान)
TypeNoun
Rootपाप (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/Ablative), एकवचन
तेthey
ते:
Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन
पूताःpurified
पूताः:
Viśeṣaṇa (Predicate adjective)
TypeAdjective
Rootपू (धातु) → पूत (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
Formक्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past passive participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; विधेय-विशेषणम् (ते)
नno; not
न:
Pratiṣedha (Negation)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootन (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय (negation particle)
अत्रhere; in this matter
अत्र:
Adhikaraṇa (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअत्र (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय (adverb of place)
संशयःdoubt
संशयः:
Karta (Subject—impersonal: 'there is no doubt')
TypeNoun
Rootसंशय (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन
पृथिव्याम्on earth
पृथिव्याम्:
Adhikaraṇa (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootपृथिवी (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन
यानिwhich
यानि:
Karta (Subject—relative clause)
TypeNoun
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; सम्बन्धक सर्वनाम
लिंगानिliṅgas
लिंगानि:
Karta (Subject—relative clause)
TypeNoun
Rootलिङ्ग (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन
तेषुamong them; in those
तेषु:
Adhikaraṇa (Location/अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), बहुवचन
दृष्टेषुwhen seen; in the seen ones
दृष्टेषु:
Adhikaraṇa (Locative absolute-like qualifier)
TypeAdjective
Rootदृश् (धातु) → दृष्ट (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
Formक्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), बहुवचन; विशेषणम् (तेषु)
यत्whatever
यत्:
Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier)
TypeAdjective
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; सम्बन्धक (फलम् इति विशेषणम्)
फलम्fruit; result
फलम्:
Karma/Phala (Result)
TypeNoun
Rootफल (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; (श्लोकः अपूर्णवाक्यवत्—अग्रे अन्वयः अपेक्षितः)
Speaker

Skanda (deduced: Kāśī Khaṇḍa context, Skanda to Agastya)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Triviṣṭapa/Trilocana Liṅga (Kāśī)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: null

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A radiant liṅga shrine where the devotee’s aura is shown being cleansed—dark smoke-like ‘sins of seven births’ dissolving into light; in the background, faint silhouettes of many liṅgas across Bhārata merge into this single focal shrine.

Characters & Entities
L
Liṅgas (all on earth)
S
seven births (sapta-janma)
P
pāpa (sin)

FAQs

Kāśī is portrayed as a concentrated field of merit where darśana grants vast purification and the essence of global pilgrimage-fruits.

The Triviṣṭapa/Trilocana sacred circuit in Kāśī, presented as equivalent to the merit of seeing Liṅgas across the whole world.

Darśana (seeing sacred Liṅgas) is emphasized as the act yielding purification from long-accumulated sins.

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