Brahma Purana — The Path of Liberation: Self-Knowledge, Sense-Restraint, and Crossing the River of Worldly Flow, Shloka 19

Devanagari script

तानि सर्वाणि संधाय मनःषष्ठानि मेधया आत्मतृप्तः स एवासीद् बहुचिन्त्यम् अचिन्तयन् //

Translation

This verse (no. 19) sets forth a profound meaning in keeping with the ancient Purāṇic tradition.

Word by Word

• tāni: those (things)
• tāni: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Napumsaka (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Dvitīyā (2nd/द्वितीया), Bahuvacana (बहुवचन)

• sarvāṇi: all
• sarvāṇi: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sarva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Napumsaka (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Dvitīyā (2nd/द्वितीया), Bahuvacana (बहुवचन); viśeṣaṇa of tāni

• saṃdhāya: having brought together, having fixed
• saṃdhāya: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Verb
• Root: sam-dhā (धातु)
• Form: Absolutive/Gerund (क्त्वान्त), avyaya; ‘having fixed/collected’

• manaḥ-ṣaṣṭhāni: (the senses) with mind as the sixth
• manaḥ-ṣaṣṭhāni: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: manas (प्रातिपदिक) + ṣaṣṭha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Bahuvrīhi (बहुव्रीहि) ‘whose sixth is mind’ = ‘with mind as the sixth’; Napumsaka (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Dvitīyā (2nd/द्वितीया), Bahuvacana (बहुवचन); viśeṣaṇa of tāni (indriyāṇi implied)

• medhayā: by intelligence
• medhayā: Karaṇa (करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: medhā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Tṛtīyā (3rd/तृतीया), Ekavacana (एकवचन)

• ātma-tṛptaḥ: self-satisfied, content in the Self
• ātma-tṛptaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ātman (प्रातिपदिक) + tṛpta (कृदन्त from √tṛp)
• Form: Tatpuruṣa (तत्पुरुष) ‘ātmanā tṛptaḥ/ātmani tṛptaḥ’; Puṃliṅga (पुंलिङ्ग), Prathamā (1st/प्रथमा), Ekavacana (एकवचन)

• saḥ: he
• saḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga (पुंलिङ्ग), Prathamā (1st/प्रथमा), Ekavacana (एकवचन)

• eva: indeed
• eva: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya (अव्यय), emphatic particle (निपात)

• āsīt: was
• āsīt: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: as (धातु)
• Form: Laṅ (लङ्) imperfect/past, Parasmaipada (परस्मैपद), Prathama-puruṣa (3rd person), Ekavacana (एकवचन)

• bahu-cintyam: much-to-be-thought-about (many matters)
• bahu-cintyam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bahu (प्रातिपदिक) + cintya (कृदन्त from √cint)
• Form: Karmadhāraya (कर्मधारय) ‘bahu cintyam’; Napumsaka (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Dvitīyā (2nd/द्वितीया), Ekavacana (एकवचन)

• acintayan: not thinking (of)
• acintayan: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Verb
• Root: a-cint (धातु)
• Form: Present active participle (शतृ), Puṃliṅga (पुंलिङ्ग), Prathamā (1st/प्रथमा), Ekavacana (एकवचन); negated ‘not thinking’

Speaker

• Unspecified teacher/sage instructing Brahmin seekers