Brahmanda Purana — Anushanga Pada, Shloka 84

Mauneya Devagandharva–Apsaras Vamsha-Kirtana

Catalogue of Mauneya Gandharvas and Apsarases

Devanagari script

इयं ब्रह्मधना नाम कन्या या सहिता शुभा / ब्रह्म तस्यापराहार इति शण्डो ऽभ्यभाषत

Transliteration

iyaṃ brahmadhanā nāma kanyā yā sahitā śubhā / brahma tasyāparāhāra iti śaṇḍo 'bhyabhāṣata

Translation

This auspicious, well-adorned maiden is named “Brahmadhanā”; Śaṇḍa declared, “Her highest sustenance is Brahman alone.”

Word by Word

• iyam: this (girl)
• iyam: Kartā (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: idam (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; demonstrative pronoun

• brahmadhanā: Brahmadhanā (name: ‘Brahma’s-wealth’)
• brahmadhanā: Kartā (कर्ता/Subject complement)
• Type: Noun
• Root: brahma + dhanā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष ‘brahmaṇaḥ dhanam’ → ‘brahmadhanā’ (as name)

• nāma: named
• nāma: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: nāma (अव्यय)
• Form: Particle (निपात) used in naming/apposition

• kanyā: girl/maiden
• kanyā: Kartā (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kanyā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular

• yā: who
• yā: Kartā (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; relative pronoun

• sahitā: accompanied/associated
• sahitā: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण/qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sahita (कृदन्त; √sah धातु)
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), Feminine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; ‘accompanied/associated’

• śubhā: auspicious/beautiful
• śubhā: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण/qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: śubha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; adjective qualifying kanyā

• brahma: Brahma; ‘brahma’
• brahma: Karma (कर्म/quoted content)
• Type: Noun
• Root: brahman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा) / Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Singular; here as topic/quoted word

• tasyā: of her
• tasyā: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/possessor)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Singular

• aparāhāraḥ: (is) other sustenance/food
• aparāhāraḥ: Kartā (कर्ता/subject complement)
• Type: Noun
• Root: apara + āhāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; ‘aparaḥ āhāraḥ’ = ‘other food/secondary sustenance’

• iti: thus
• iti: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/quotative)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: iti (अव्यय)
• Form: Quotative particle (इति-निपात) marking direct speech

• śaṇḍaḥ: Śaṇḍa
• śaṇḍaḥ: Kartā (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śaṇḍa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular

• abhyabhāṣata: spoke/declared
• abhyabhāṣata: Kriyā (क्रिया/verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: abhi-√bhāṣ (धातु)
• Form: Luṅ (लुङ्/Aorist), Ātmanepada, 3rd Person (प्रथमपुरुष), Singular; with prefix abhi-