Shloka 18

Cavana’s Tests of Kuśika and the Queen (अध्याय ५३: च्यवन–कुशिक-परिक्षा)

Devanagari script

अभीतरूपा: संहृष्टा अन्योन्यवशवर्तिन: । बबन्धुस्तत्र मत्स्यांश्व तथान्यान्‌ जलचारिण:

Transliteration

abhītarūpāḥ saṁhṛṣṭā anyonyavaśavartinaḥ | babandhus tatra matsyāṁś ca tathānyān jalacāriṇaḥ ||

Translation

Delighting in their own pleasing forms and exhilarated, they moved under one another’s sway; and there they bound fast the fishes, and likewise other creatures that move in the waters.

Word by Word

• अभीतरूपाः: having fearful forms
• अभीतरूपाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अभीतरूप
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• संहृष्टाः: excited, delighted
• संहृष्टाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: संहृष्ट
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• अन्योन्यवशवर्तिनः: subject to one another's control
• अन्योन्यवशवर्तिनः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्योन्यवशवर्तिन्
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• बबन्धुः: they bound, they tied
• बबन्धुः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: बन्ध्
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), 3rd, Plural

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र

• मत्स्यान्: fish
• मत्स्यान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मत्स्य
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• तथा: likewise
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• अन्यान्: other
• अन्यान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्य
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• जलचारिणः: water-dwellers, aquatic creatures
• जलचारिणः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: जलचारिन्
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• भीष्म (Bhīṣma)
• मत्स्य (fish)
• जलचारिणः (aquatic creatures)