Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 35

Devanagari script

वदंतु मुनयः सर्वे क्षेत्रतीर्थसमाश्रिताः । शुद्धं विचार्यं यत्कार्य्यं मयाऽस्मिञ्जातसंकटे

Transliteration

vadaṃtu munayaḥ sarve kṣetratīrthasamāśritāḥ | śuddhaṃ vicāryaṃ yatkāryyaṃ mayā'smiñjātasaṃkaṭe

Translation

愿一切依止圣域与诸圣地渡口的牟尼圣贤，宣说他们的劝诫。在这突然而起的危难之中，请以清净的辨慧审思：我当作何所行。

Word by Word

• vadantu: let (them) speak
• vadantu: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vad (धातु)
• Form: लोट् (Imperative), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन, परस्मैपद

• munayaḥ: sages
• munayaḥ: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: muni (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन

• sarve: all
• sarve: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन

• kṣetra-tīrtha-samāśritāḥ: resorting to sacred places and tīrthas
• kṣetra-tīrtha-samāśritāḥ: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kṣetra (प्रातिपदिक) + tīrtha (प्रातिपदिक) + sam-āśrita (कृदन्त, √śri)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन; भूतकृदन्त (क्त), ‘समाश्रित’ = having resorted to

• śuddham: purely; correctly
• śuddham: Kriya-visheshana (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: śuddha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (1st/2nd), एकवचन; क्रियाविशेषणवत् (adverbially: ‘purely/correctly’)

• vicāryam: to be deliberated
• vicāryam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Verb
• Root: vi-√car (धातु)
• Form: णिच्-प्रत्यय/यत्-प्रत्ययान्त (gerundive), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; ‘to be considered’

• yat: what
• yat: Sambandha (Relative/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; सम्बन्धसूचक

• kāryam: the task; what should be done
• kāryam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kārya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन

• mayā: by me
• mayā: Karana/Karta (Agent-Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/स्त्री, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), एकवचन

• asmin: in this
• asmin: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: idam (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन

• jāta-saṃkaṭe: in the arisen crisis
• jāta-saṃkaṭe: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: jāta (कृदन्त, √jan) + saṃkaṭa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; सप्तमी-तत्पुरुष (संकटे जाते)

Speaker

Gautama

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Dvārakā

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: munayaḥ (assembled sages)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A council of sages seated in a tīrtha grove near Dvārakā, listening as a speaker requests pure counsel amid an arising संकट; water, sacred trees, and ascetic implements frame the scene.

Characters & Entities

• Gautama
• Munis
• Kṣetras
• Tīrthas

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

In संकट (crisis), dharma is best upheld through collective wisdom and pure deliberation, not impulse.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse broadly invokes all kṣetras and tīrthas through their resident sages, within the Gautamī-centered narrative.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No ritual act is prescribed; it prescribes śuddha-vicāra—pure, careful discernment—before action.