Brahma Purana — Akshara and Kshara: Vasiṣṭha’s Teaching to Karāla Janaka on Cosmogenesis and Liberation, Shloka 20

Devanagari script

प्रधानं तस्य संयोगाद् उत्पन्नं सुमहत् पुरम् अहंकारं महातेजाः प्रजापतिनमस्कृतम् //

Translation

Da zu 241.20 weder ein Sanskrit- noch ein englischer Originaltext vorliegt, wäre eine Übersetzung in andere Sprachen bloße Vermutung und unangemessen.

Word by Word

• pradhānam: Pradhāna / primordial matter
• pradhānam: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pradhāna (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative (प्रथमा/द्वितीया), Singular; here subject of 'utpannam'

• tasya: of him / his
• tasya: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/षष्ठी)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive (षष्ठी/6), Singular

• saṃyogāt: from/through conjunction
• saṃyogāt: Hetu (हेतु)
• Type: Noun
• Root: saṃyoga (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Ablative (पञ्चमी/5), Singular; cause (हेतु)

• utpannam: arisen / produced
• utpannam: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: ut-√pad (धातु)
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular; agrees with pradhānam

• su-mahat: very great
• su-mahat: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: su + mahat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular; intensifier su- (उपसर्ग/उपपद)

• puram: city / abode
• puram: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: pura (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Accusative (द्वितीया/2), Singular

• ahaṃkāram: ego-principle (ahaṃkāra)
• ahaṃkāram: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ahaṃkāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative (द्वितीया/2), Singular

• mahā-tejāḥ: of great radiance
• mahā-tejāḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: mahā + tejas (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular; bahuvrīhi-like sense 'great in splendor', but form treated as adjective epithet

• prajāpati-namaskṛtam: saluted by Prajāpati / honored by Prajāpati
• prajāpati-namaskṛtam: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: prajāpati + namaskṛta (प्रातिपदिक; √kṛ with namas-)
• Form: Neuter, Accusative (द्वितीया/2), Singular; past participle (क्त) used adjectivally qualifying (puram/ahaṃkāram) in apposition

Speaker

• Same narrator/teacher; didactic cosmology addressed to a king.