Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 25

Devanagari script

यश्चैतत्पठते मर्त्यो भक्त्या युक्तः शृणोति वा । मुच्यते स नरः पापात्तद्दिनैकसमुद्भवात्

Transliteration

yaścaitatpaṭhate martyo bhaktyā yuktaḥ śṛṇoti vā | mucyate sa naraḥ pāpāttaddinaikasamudbhavāt

Translation

凡具信敬之凡人，若诵读此文，或仅聆听之，彼人即得解脱诸罪，乃至当日所生之罪亦皆消除。

Word by Word

• yaḥ: who
• yaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular); सर्वनाम (relative pronoun)

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

• etat: this (text/episode)
• etat: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: etad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन (Singular); सर्वनाम

• paṭhate: reads
• paṭhate: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √paṭh (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (Singular), परस्मैपद

• martyaḥ: a mortal
• martyaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: martya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular)

• bhaktyā: with devotion
• bhaktyā: Karaṇa (Instrument/Means)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhakti (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), एकवचन (Singular)

• yuktaḥ: endowed (with)
• yuktaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (Adjective of subject)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √yuj (धातु)
• Form: क्त (past participle); पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular)

• śṛṇoti: hears
• śṛṇoti: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √śru (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (Singular), परस्मैपद

• vā: or
• vā: Sambandha (Alternative marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: vā (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; विकल्पार्थक (disjunctive particle)

• mucyate: is freed
• mucyate: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √muc (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (Singular), आत्मनेपद; कर्मणि-प्रयोग (passive)

• saḥ: he
• saḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular); सर्वनाम

• naraḥ: the man
• naraḥ: Samānādhikaraṇa (Apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular)

• pāpāt: from sin
• pāpāt: Apādāna (Source/Separation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāpa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/Ablative), एकवचन (Singular)

• tat-dina-eka-samudbhavāt: arising from that single day
• tat-dina-eka-samudbhavāt: Hetu/Apādāna (Cause/Ablative)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) + dina (प्रातिपदिक) + eka (प्रातिपदिक) + samudbhava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/Ablative), एकवचन (Singular); तत्पुरुष-समास (tasmin dine ekasmāt samudbhavāt)

Speaker

Sūta (deduced: phalaśruti style in Purāṇic narration)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: brāhmaṇas (viprāḥ)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A devotee recites or listens with folded hands; the spoken syllables are visualized as luminous waves washing away dark stains labeled ‘pāpa’, emphasizing ‘tad-dinaika-samudbhava’—even same-day sins dissolve.

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Devotional recitation and listening to sacred tīrtha-kathā purifies the listener and reduces sin.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse gives a general phalaśruti for the preceding tīrtha narrative; the site is not specified within this single shloka.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

Recitation (pāṭha) and listening (śravaṇa) performed with bhakti.