Shloka 16

Rāma’s Inquiry into the Hidden Identity of the Radiant Stranger

Dialogue Frame

Devanagari script

बद्धपद्मासनो मौनी यतवाक्कायमानसः / निरुद्धप्राणसंचारो दध्यौ चिरमुदारधीः

Transliteration

baddhapadmāsano maunī yatavākkāyamānasaḥ / niruddhaprāṇasaṃcāro dadhyau ciramudāradhīḥ

Translation

Im fest gebundenen Padmāsana saß er schweigend; er zügelte Rede, Körper und Geist, hemmte den Fluss des Prāṇa und meditierte lange mit edler Einsicht.

Word by Word

• baddha-padmāsanaḥ: with lotus posture fixed
• baddha-padmāsanaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: baddha (sam-√bandh धातु + क्त) + padmāsana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; karmadhāraya: ‘baddhaḥ padmāsanaḥ’ (one whose lotus-posture is fixed)

• maunī: silent
• maunī: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: mauna (प्रातिपदिक) + in (इन्)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; ‘observing silence’

• yata-vāk-kāya-mānasaḥ: restraining speech, body, and mind
• yata-vāk-kāya-mānasaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: yata (√yam धातु + क्त) + vāk (प्रातिपदिक) + kāya (प्रातिपदिक) + mānasa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; dvandva with prior qualifier: vāk+kāya+mānasa (speech, body, mind) restrained (yata)

• niruddha-prāṇa-saṃcāraḥ: with the movement of breath restrained
• niruddha-prāṇa-saṃcāraḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: niruddha (nir-√rudh धातु + क्त) + prāṇa (प्रातिपदिक) + saṃcāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; tatpuruṣa: ‘prāṇasya saṃcāraḥ’ (movement of breath) which is restrained (niruddha)

• dadhyau: meditated
• dadhyau: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: dhyai (धातु)
• Form: Perfect (लिट्), Parasmaipada, 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष), Singular; from √dhyai (ध्यै) ‘to meditate’

• ciram: for a long time
• ciram: Desha-kala-adhikarana (देश-काल-अधिकरणम्)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ciram (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya (अव्यय), adverb of time (कालवाचक क्रियाविशेषण)

• udāra-dhīḥ: noble-minded
• udāra-dhīḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: udāra (प्रातिपदिक) + dhī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; karmadhāraya: ‘udārā dhīḥ yasya’ (noble-minded)