Brahma Purana — Krishna Slays the False Vasudeva and Burns Varanasi with the Sudarshana Chakra, Shloka 42

Devanagari script

अशेषदुर्गकोष्ठां तां दुर्निरीक्ष्यां सुरैर् अपि ज्वालापरिवृताशेषगृहप्राकारतोरणाम् //

Translation

This entry provides only the number “42” and no Sanskrit text; therefore a meaningful translation cannot be given.

Word by Word

• aśeṣa-durga-koṣṭhām: having all forts/strongholds and storehouses
• aśeṣa-durga-koṣṭhām: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: aśeṣa (प्रातिपदिक) + durga (प्रातिपदिक) + koṣṭha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; विशेषण—‘tām (purīm)’

• tām: that
• tām: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन

• dur-nirīkṣyām: hard to behold
• dur-nirīkṣyām: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: dur (अव्यय/उपसर्ग) + nirīkṣya (कृदन्त, √īkṣ/ईक्ष्)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; ‘दुर्निरीक्ष्या’ = ‘दुष्टं/कठिनं निरीक्ष्यते’ (hard to look at)

• suraiḥ: by the gods
• suraiḥ: Kartr/Agent-instrument (कर्ता-करणभाव/तृतीया)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sura (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), बहुवचन

• api: even
• api: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: api (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; अवधान/समुच्चयार्थक निपात (particle) ‘even/also’

• jvālā-parivṛta-aśeṣa-gṛha-prākāra-toraṇām: whose houses, ramparts, and gateways were all enveloped by flames
• jvālā-parivṛta-aśeṣa-gṛha-prākāra-toraṇām: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: jvālā (प्रातिपदिक) + parivṛta (कृदन्त, √vṛ/वृ) + aśeṣa (प्रातिपदिक) + gṛha (प्रातिपदिक) + prākāra (प्रातिपदिक) + toraṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; विशेषण—‘tām (purīm)’

Speaker

• Narrator to sages