Brahma Purana — The Path of Liberation: Self-Knowledge, Sense-Restraint, and Crossing the River of Worldly Flow, Shloka 12
Devanagari script
न भवति विदुषां महद् भयं यद् अविदुषां सुमहद् भयं परत्र नहि गतिर् अधिकास्ति कस्यचिद् भवति हि या विदुषः सनातनी
Translation
This verse (no. 12) is revered as sacred utterance within the Purāṇa tradition.
Word by Word
nanot
na:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/negation marker)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootna (अव्यय)
Formनिषेधार्थक-अव्यय (particle of negation)
bhavatiis/occurs
bhavati:
Kriya (क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootbhū (धातु)
Formलट्-लकार (Present), प्रथम-पुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (singular), परस्मैपद
viduṣāmof the wise
viduṣām:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Genitive)
TypeNoun
Rootvidvas (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग (masc.), षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive/6th), बहुवचन (plural)
mahatgreat
mahat:
Visheshana (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootmahat (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग (neut.), प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc.), एकवचन (singular); विशेषण (qualifier) of 'bhayam'
bhayamfear
bhayam:
Karta (कर्ता/subject)
TypeNoun
Rootbhaya (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग (neut.), प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc.), एकवचन (singular)
yatwhich/that (fear)
yat:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/relative)
TypeNoun
Rootyad (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग (neut.), प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc.), एकवचन; सम्बन्धसूचक-सर्वनाम (relative pronoun)
aviduṣāmof the unwise
aviduṣām:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Genitive)
TypeNoun
Rootavidvas (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग (masc.), षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive/6th), बहुवचन (plural)
sumahatvery great
sumahat:
Visheshana (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootsu + mahat (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग (neut.), प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc.), एकवचन; उपसर्ग/उपपद 'सु' (intensifier) + विशेषण
bhayamfear
bhayam:
Karta (कर्ता/subject)
TypeNoun
Rootbhaya (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग (neut.), प्रथमा/द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Nom./Acc.), एकवचन
paratrain the hereafter
paratra:
Adhikarana (अधिकरण/adverbial locus)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootparatra (अव्यय)
Formदेश/कालवाचक-अव्यय (adverb: 'in the other world/after death')
nanot
na:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/negation marker)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootna (अव्यय)
Formनिषेधार्थक-अव्यय
hiindeed/for
hi:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
TypeIndeclinable
Roothi (अव्यय)
Formनिपात (particle), अवधान/हेतुवाचक (emphatic/causal)
gatiḥcourse/way/refuge
gatiḥ:
Karta (कर्ता/subject)
TypeNoun
Rootgati (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग (fem.), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन (singular)
adhikāgreater/other
adhikā:
Visheshana (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootadhikā (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग (fem.), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nom./1st), एकवचन; विशेषण of 'gatiḥ'
astiexists/is
asti:
Kriya (क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootas (धातु)
Formलट्-लकार (Present), प्रथम-पुरुष (3rd), एकवचन, परस्मैपद
kasyacitof anyone
kasyacit:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Genitive)
TypeNoun
Rootkas + cit (प्रातिपदिक + निपात)
Formपुंलिङ्ग (masc.), षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive/6th), एकवचन; अनिश्चित-सर्वनाम (indefinite pronoun)
bhavatiis/occurs
bhavati:
Kriya (क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootbhū (धातु)
Formलट्-लकार (Present), प्रथम-पुरुष (3rd), एकवचन, परस्मैपद
hiindeed
hi:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
TypeIndeclinable
Roothi (अव्यय)
Formनिपात (particle), अवधानार्थक (emphatic)
yāwhich (way)
yā:
Karta (कर्ता/relative subject)
TypeNoun
Rootyad (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग (fem.), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन; सम्बन्धसूचक-सर्वनाम (relative pronoun)
viduṣaḥof the wise man
viduṣaḥ:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Genitive)
TypeNoun
Rootvidvas (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग (masc.), षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive/6th), एकवचन
sanātanīeternal
sanātanī:
Visheshana (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootsanātanī (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग (fem.), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nom./1st), एकवचन; विशेषण of implied 'gatiḥ'
Speaker
Continuing instruction in the same discourse stream