Shloka 117
Ābhūta-saṃplava & Loka-vibhāga
Dissolution Threshold and the Fourteen Abodes
Devanagari script
परमाणुः सुसूक्ष्मस्तु भावग्राह्यो न चक्षुषा / यदभेद्यतमं लोके विज्ञेयं परमाणुवत्
Transliteration
paramāṇuḥ susūkṣmastu bhāvagrāhyo na cakṣuṣā / yadabhedyatamaṃ loke vijñeyaṃ paramāṇuvat
Translation
The paramāṇu is exceedingly subtle—grasped by inner understanding, not by the eyes. Whatever is most indivisible in the world should be known as being like the paramāṇu.
Word by Word
परम-अणुःthe atom (paramāṇu)
परम-अणुः:
कर्ता (Kartā/Subject)
TypeNoun
Rootपरम (प्रातिपदिक) + अणु (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular); कर्मधारय: ‘supreme/minute atom’
सु-सूक्ष्मःvery subtle
सु-सूक्ष्मः:
कर्तृविशेषण (Kartṛ-viśeṣaṇa)
TypeAdjective
Rootसु (उपसर्ग/अव्यय) + सूक्ष्म (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular); विशेषण; ‘सु-’ = अत्यर्थ (very)
तुbut/indeed
तु:
सम्बोधन-निपात (Discourse particle)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतु (अव्यय)
Formनिपात (particle), विरोध/विशेषार्थ (but/indeed)
भाव-ग्राह्यःapprehensible by thought/idea
भाव-ग्राह्यः:
कर्तृविशेषण (Kartṛ-viśeṣaṇa)
TypeAdjective
Rootभाव (प्रातिपदिक) + ग्राह्य (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √ग्रह् + ण्यत्)
Formपुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन (Singular); तत्पुरुष: ‘graspable by (mental) conception/being’
नnot
न:
निषेध (Negation)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootन (अव्यय)
Formनिषेध (negation particle)
चक्षुषाby the eye
चक्षुषा:
करण (Karaṇa/Instrument)
TypeNoun
Rootचक्षुस् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), एकवचन (Singular)
यत्that which
यत्:
सम्बन्ध (Relative link)
TypeNoun
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा/द्वितीया (Nom/Acc), एकवचन (Singular); सम्बन्धबोधक (relative pronoun)
अभेद्य-तमम्most indivisible
अभेद्य-तमम्:
विशेषण (Viśeṣaṇa)
TypeAdjective
Rootअभेद्य (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √भिद् + यत् with अ-निषेध) + तमप् (तद्धित)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा/द्वितीया (Nom/Acc), एकवचन (Singular); अतिशय (superlative)
लोकेin the world
लोके:
अधिकरण (Adhikaraṇa/Location)
TypeNoun
Rootलोक (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन (Singular)
विज्ञेयम्is to be understood/known
विज्ञेयम्:
विधेय (Predicate/what is to be known)
TypeVerb
Rootवि + ज्ञा (धातु)
Formतव्यत्/अनीयर्-अर्थे (gerundive; ‘to be known’), नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), प्रथमा/द्वितीया (Nom/Acc), एकवचन (Singular)
परम-अणु-वत्like an atom
परम-अणु-वत्:
उपमान (Upamāna/Standard of comparison)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootपरमाणु (प्रातिपदिक) + वत् (तद्धित)
Formअव्यय (indeclinable), उपमानवाचक (comparative): ‘like an atom’