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जनकस्य मोक्षमार्गप्रश्नः तथा पञ्चशिखोपदेश-प्रस्तावः | Janaka’s Path to Liberation: Prelude to Pañcaśikha’s Instruction
Devanagari script
अभिद्रवत्ययस्कान्तमयो निश्चेतनं यथा । स्वभावहेतुजा भावा यद्वदन्यदपीदृशम्,जिस प्रकार लोहा अचेतन होनेपर भी चुम्बककी ओर खिंच जाता है, वैसे ही शरीरके उत्पन्न होनेपर प्राणीके स्वाभाविक संस्कार तथा अविद्या, काम, कर्म आदि दूसरे गुण उसकी ओर खिंच आते हैं
Transliteration
abhidravaty ayaskāntam ayo niścetanaṃ yathā | svabhāva-hetujā bhāvā yadvad anyad apīdṛśam ||
Translation
Bhīṣma said: “Just as iron, though insentient, runs toward a magnet, so too, when a body comes into being, the living being’s innate dispositions—together with ignorance, desire, and the momentum of past action and the like—are drawn toward it and fasten upon it.”
Word by Word
अभिद्रवतिruns/flows towards, is drawn towards
अभिद्रवति:
Karta
TypeVerb
Rootअभि+द्रु (धातु)
FormLat (present), 3rd, singular, Parasmaipada
अयस्कान्तम्to the magnet (lodestone)
अयस्कान्तम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootअयस्कान्त (प्रातिपदिक)
Formmasculine, accusative, singular
अयःiron
अयः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootअयस् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formneuter, nominative, singular
निश्चेतनम्insentient, unconscious
निश्चेतनम्:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootनिश्चेतन (प्रातिपदिक)
Formneuter, nominative, singular
यथाjust as
यथा:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootयथा
स्वभावहेतुजाःarising from (one's) nature as the cause
स्वभावहेतुजाः:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootस्वभावहेतुज (प्रातिपदिक)
Formmasculine, nominative, plural
भावाःstates/qualities/dispositions
भावाः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootभाव (प्रातिपदिक)
Formmasculine, nominative, plural
यद्वत्in the same way as
यद्वत्:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootयद्वत्
अन्यत्other (thing)
अन्यत्:
Karta
TypePronoun/Adjective
Rootअन्य (प्रातिपदिक)
Formneuter, nominative, singular
अपिalso/even
अपि:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअपि
ईदृशम्such/like this
ईदृशम्:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootईदृश (प्रातिपदिक)
Formneuter, nominative, singular
Speaker
भीष्म उवाच
Characters & Entities
B
BhīṣmaA
ayaskānta (magnet)A
ayas (iron)Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)
Geographic Context
Sandhi Notes