Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 39

Devanagari script

यानि ते कल्पनामानि पूर्वमुक्तानि सुन्दरि । तानि त्रयोदशाकल्पादुदक्तात्कथितानि मे

Transliteration

yāni te kalpanāmāni pūrvamuktāni sundari | tāni trayodaśākalpādudaktātkathitāni me

Translation

美丽者啊，你先前所说与劫（kalpa）相关的诸名号——我已自第十三劫起依次为你叙述。

Word by Word

• यानि: which (things)
• यानि: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), बहुवचन; सम्बन्ध-सर्वनाम (relative pronoun)

• ते: your
• ते: Sambandha (Relation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्वद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th/षष्ठी), एकवचन; सर्वनाम (genitive: ‘of you/your’)

• कल्पनामानि: the assumed/imagined names
• कल्पनामानि: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कल्पना-नामन् (प्रातिपदिक); कल्पना (प्रातिपदिक) + नामन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), बहुवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (names of imagination/assumed names)

• पूर्वम्: previously
• पूर्वम्: Kala (Time/काल)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पूर्वम् (अव्यय/प्रातिपदिक-नपुंसक)
• Form: कालवाचक-अव्यय (adverb of time)

• उक्तानि: said/mentioned
• उक्तानि: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच् (धातु)
• Form: कृदन्त (क्त-प्रत्यय, past passive participle); नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; कर्मणि-भावः (said/uttered)

• सुन्दरि: O beautiful one
• सुन्दरि: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुन्दरी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (8th/सम्बोधन), एकवचन; संबोधन-पदम्

• तानि: those (things)
• तानि: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), बहुवचन; निर्देश-सर्वनाम (demonstrative)

• त्रयोदशाकल्पात्: from the thirteenth kalpa
• त्रयोदशाकल्पात्: Apadana (Source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्रयोदश-कल्प (प्रातिपदिक); त्रयोदश (संख्या) + कल्प (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/पञ्चमी), एकवचन; अपादानम् (ablative: ‘from the 13th kalpa’)

• उदक्तात्: from the north
• उदक्तात्: Apadana (Source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: उदक् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th/पञ्चमी), एकवचन; दिशावाचक-शब्दः (from the north)

• कथितानि: have been told
• कथितानि: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: कथ् (धातु)
• Form: कृदन्त (क्त-प्रत्यय, past passive participle); नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन; कर्मणि-भावः

• मे: by me
• मे: Kartr (Agent in passive/कर्तृ)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी (6th/षष्ठी), एकवचन; सर्वनाम (genitive: ‘by me/of me’—here agent sense with passive)

Speaker

Śiva (deduced)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Devī

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A calm didactic moment: Śiva indicates that Devī’s previously mentioned kalpa-names have been recounted in sequence from the thirteenth kalpa onward—suggesting a scroll of time and orderly transmission.

Characters & Entities

• Devī
• Kalpa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Sacred tradition preserves ordered remembrance—divine names are not random but tied to cosmic cycles and dharmic purpose.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsakṣetra, where such structured narration forms part of the site’s authoritative māhātmya.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; this verse clarifies the scope and sequence of the narration.